Yarrabah Mission, Qld. April 1969. These Aboriginal troops, all from Yarrabah Mission, near ...

Accession Number DNE/69/0223/NC
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film original acetate
Maker Dunne, Bryan Rupert
Date made 1969
Conflict Period 1960-1969
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Yarrabah Mission, Qld. April 1969. These Aboriginal troops, all from Yarrabah Mission, near Cairns, are serving with the 51st Battalion, Royal Queensland Regiment. Pictured, left to right (back): Private (Pte) Luke Palmer, Pte Maurice Davidson; Pte Bryce Barlow, and Pte Lawrence Harris; (front): Pte Albert Sands and Pte Cecil Davidson. Pte Harris, a police tracker at Yarrabah, is a cook in the Battalion's B Company kitchen.