Forgotten Aboriginal Boer War veteran memorialised at Sydney grave

27 May 2021

Indigenous Australian Jack Alick Bond, soldier no 67 on the bottom right, was among the first contingent to arrive in Cape Town in February 1900. Photograph Wikimedia

New research into the little-known participation of Indigenous Australians in the Boer War has prompted the official dedication of a memorial grave in Sydney to one Aboriginal veteran forgotten by history.

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