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Originally Posted by fairlie63
It might be worth trying the Department of Veterans Affairs website. I understood that an effort was made to identify and list indigenous members of the AIF.
Generally a man could not enlist in the AIF unless he was of substantially British descent but at least 3-400 Aborigines or part-Aborigines served during the Great War.
There is at least one book on the subject: The Black Diggers by Major Robert Hall, ISBN 0 04 520005 X.
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Thank you for the information, I will look out for the book. The post card seems to be of an English type so we would be looking for a soldier who spent sometime in England and possibly served in France. If we could identify the battalion that he served with it should make identification easier.