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Author Rachel Bin Salleh, author

Title Alfred's war / Rachel Bin Salleh ; illustrated by Samantha Fry
Published Broome, W.A. : Magabala Books, 2017

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Summary 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. Alfred was a forgotten soldier. Although he had fought bravely in the Great War, as an Aboriginal man he wasn't classed as a citizen of his own country. Ye
Analysis Australian
Audience For primary school age
Subject Aboriginal Australian soldiers -- Juvenile fiction
JUVENILE FICTION -- General.
Armed Forces -- Aboriginal Australians
SUBJECT Australia -- Armed Forces -- Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Australia
Genre/Form Fiction
Juvenile works
Form Electronic book
Author Fry, Samantha, illustrator
ISBN 192536061X
9781925360622
1925360628
9781925360615