Adelaide and the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander War Memorial

Indigenous People’s Service from World War 1 and ongoing.

Peter Miles
Show Your City
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3 min readMay 5, 2021

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Female bronze figure is in a Second World War Australian Army Medical Women’s Service uniform. Image by author.
Male bronze figure is in a First World War uniform. Image by author.

In a prominent position in Adelaide, South Australia, there is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander War Memorial honoring the service of those men and women.

We have just commemorated ANZAC Day; this occurs at dawn on the 25th of April each year. The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, known as the ANZACs, landed on the beach at Gallipoli in Turkey on the 25th of April 1915 during World War 1. It was their first campaign that led to major casualties and defeat, this had a profound effect on the Australian and New Zealand people.

Over the decades ANZAC Day commemorations have come to include all serving men and women, and people who have suffered, in all wars. The day is a commemoration, not a celebration, and helps us remember those who have fallen and those who still carry wounds, often unseen wounds.

Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have served in the Australian military in every conflict, from the Boer war to the present.

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Peter Miles
Show Your City

45 years in Environmental Science, B.Env.Sc. in Wildlife & Conservation Biology. Writes on Animals, Plants, Soil & Climate Change. environmentalsciencepro.com