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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Reg Saunders: An Indigenous War Hero
Author: DOLAN HUGH/THRELFALL ADRIAN (ILL)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/04/2015
Imprint: NEW SOUTH WALES UNI PRESS
Price: $30.00
Publishing status: Active
The little-known story of Reg Saunders, the first Indigenous Australian to become an officer in the Army, retold in action-packed graphic format. Reg Saunders MBE (1920 90) not only survived the World War II battlefields in the Middle East, North Africa, Greece, Crete and New Guinea, but excelled as a military leader. He was recommended for officer training and, in 1944, returned to New Guinea as a platoon commander the first Aboriginal Australian to serve as a commissioned officer. What happened during the war to transform a determined young man from country Victoria into a war hero one who would go on to serve with distinction in the Korean War, and become a pioneering figure for Indigenous rights?
ISBN: 9781742234243
Dimension: 255mm X 180mm
Edition: 01