TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rachel Bin Salleh,
AU  - Fry,Samantha
TI  - Alfred's war
SN  - 9781925360608 :
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Broome, Western Australia
PB  - Magabala Books
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Australia
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Aboriginal Australian soldiers
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
N1  - Illustrations on endpapers; For primary school age
N2  - Alfred’s War is a powerful story that unmasks the lack of recognition given to Australian Indigenous servicemen who returned from the WWI battlelines. Alfred was just a young man when he was injured and shipped home from France. Neither honoured as a returned soldier or offered government support afforded to non-Indigenous servicemen, Alfred took up a solitary life walking the back roads – billy tied to his swag, finding work where he could. Rachel Bin Salleh’s poignant narrative opens our hearts to the sacrifice and contribution that Indigenous people have made to Australia’s war efforts, the true extent of which is only now being revealed
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