Aboriginal men from Lake Tyers, Victoria, waiting outside the quarter master's store for their 2nd Australia imperial forces uniform, circa 1940.
Lest we forget.
Photo credit: Argus newspaper.
Anzac Day 2025
Also from the The Argus Newspaper (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) View title info Wed 26 Jun 1940 Page 5:
"MEN FROM LAKE TYERS About one-quarter of the adult male population will leave Lake Tyers aboriginal station this morning, when 17 men who have passed the preliminary medical examination will enter Caulfield camp. Three others were rejected as medically unfit. The volunteers, the youngest 19 and the oldest 39, represent half those eligible for service at the station."








