Caroona Walhallow Gate of Memory
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Caroona Mission Road
Caroona NSW 2343
Australia
- First World War, 1914–18
- Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander
Caroona Mission Road
Caroona NSW 2343
Australia
William Allan Irwin is the only Indigenous soldier recognised by Bean in his official histories of World War I.
Members of Walhallow must have wondered why the ‘all’ did not see their loved ones included on the memorials in town.
On the 15th of October 1915, at a Narrabri recruiting meeting a march similar to the Coo-ee March was planned, called the Wallaby March, it commenced at Walgett on December 1915.
Russell Johnson had always had a degree of luck, shot through the neck as a young man at Caroona and now having survived The Great War, he was on his way home.
In 1934, forty kilometres from Quirindi NSW, the local Aboriginal people, members of the RSL and a few newspaper men gathered on the then Aboriginal mission station of Walhallow, to do something the local towns communities had refused to do, honour the Aboriginal men from Walhallow that served in WWI.
When two platoons came under fire from hostile machine-guns at Chuignes on 23 August 1918, George Matthews sprang into action.
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