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Pte Sarn Singh, 43rd Battalion, AIF, c.1916
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Pte Sarn Singh, 43rd Battalion, AIF

At least 12 Indian Australians are known to have enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) during the First World War. Two of them, Pte Sarn Singh and Pte Nain Singh

Author: Australian War Memorial

A plaque commemorating Private Nain Singh Sailani, an Indian Anzac killed in action on June 1, 1917 in Belgium
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Pte Nain Singh Sailani, 44th Battalion, AIF

At least 12 Indian Australians are known to have enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) during the First World War. Two of them, Pte Sarn Singh and Pte Nain Singh

Author: Australian War Memorial

three brothers (left to right) Private Kenneth George Douglas; Lance Corporal Alan Edward Douglas; and Lance Sergeant Gordon Leslie Douglas, c.1916.
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The Douglas brothers

Alan Douglas, born in 1894 in Picton, New South Wales, was the second of three sons and a daughter born to Mary and George Douglas.

Author: Australian War Memorial

Private Mervyn Allen Lown, 13th Battalion, AIF, c.1914
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Private Mervyn Allen Lown, 13th Battalion, AIF

Mervyn Lown was born in 1893 to Andrew and Margaret Lown in Balmain, Sydney. His father owned a grocery on Darling Street, and was a warden at St Mary’s Church of England.

Author: Australian War Memorial

5257 Private Samson Daniel Fox, 38th Battalion, AIF, c.1915
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Private Samson Daniel Fox, 38th Battalion, AIF

Samson Fox was born on 13 August 1893 at Cadell, South Australia, to Samson Daniel Fox senior, an Indigenous man from southern Victoria, and Eliza Bourne, a white woman from Kap

Author: Australian War Memorial