Wartime letters of highest ranked Indigenous soldier revealed

Lieutenants Reginald Saunders and Tom Derrick VC congratulate each other on receiving their commissions in November 1944. The two men shared a tent during their officer training. CREDIT: AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL

A bundle of letters handed over to the Australian War Memorial by Auntie Glenda, Lieutenant Reginald Saunders’ daughter, give for the first time an insight into the private life of Australia’s most senior Indigenous soldier.

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