Reg Saunders
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title:
Reg Saunders
text:
Reginald Walter Saunders, MBE was the first Aboriginal Australian to be commissioned as an officer in the Australian Army. He came from a military family, his forebears having served in the Boer War and the First World War. Enlisting as a soldier in 1940, he saw action during the Second World War in North Africa, Greece and Crete, before being commissioned as a lieutenant and serving as a platoon commander in New Guinea during 1944–1945. His younger brother Harry also joined the Army, and was ki
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Australian Army officer (1920–1990)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reg_Saunders
date created:
2006-03-14T07:19:50Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T04:03:34Z
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