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Author Gordon, Harry, 1925 November 9-

Title The embarrassing Australian : the story of an Aboriginal warrior / Harry Gordon
Published Melbourne : Lansdowne Press, 1962

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  994.04 Gor  AVAILABLE
 W'BOOL SPC  994.04 Gor  LIB USE ONLY
Description 172 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
regular print
Contents "I wouldn't be white for quids" -- The misfits -- The name that got lost -- The longest walkabout -- Mud over blood -- A leap, and a charge -- The desperate months -- The other enemy -- Made to order -- "Let's give him a go" -- The no-certificate man -- The peculiar war -- The new life -- Monologue in main street
Summary A tribute to Lieut. Reginald Saunders, an Australian aboriginal who served in 1939-45 War and Korean War 1950-53
Notes Review: Aust. Post. 25th Oct. 1962 p.17
Performer A tribute to Lieut. Reginald Saunders, an Australian aboriginal who served in 1939-45 War and Korean War 1950-53
Notes Also issued online
Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
Restricted Mediated access: access to First Nations materials may be restricted while an audit, reparative description and reclassification of these materials is in progress
Subject Saunders, Reg, 1920-1990.
Saunders, Reginald Walter, 1920-
Saunders, Reginald Walter
Saunders, Reginald (Reginald Walter)
Aboriginal Australian soldiers
Aboriginal Australians -- Biography.
Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations.
Aboriginal Australians.
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Biography.
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Participation, Aboriginal Australian
Soldiers -- Australia -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Australian.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Aboriginal Australian
Genre/Form Biographies.
Personal narratives.
LC no. 64002783