Roland Carter

Roland Carter was an Indigenous Australian who was born in Raukkan, South Australia and was the first of the Ngarrindjeri people to enlist in the Australian Infantry Forces to fight in World War I.[1]

Following the war, Carter was repatriated to England and then to South Australia where he returned to Raukkan where he lived until his death.

References

  1. ↑ "Wartime magazine issue 76 | The Australian War Memorial". www.awm.gov.au. Retrieved 2018-03-19.

Further reading

Adam, Mary-Clare; Sloggett, Robyn (19 February 2018). "Roland Carter and Leonhard Adam: Friendship in the Preservation of Ngarrindjeri Knowledge and Cultural Heritage". Australian Historical Studies. 49 (1): 44–62. doi:10.1080/1031461X.2017.1418901.

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