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Originally Posted by High Wood
He might be but prior to the Great War immigration to Australia was mainly from those of white European descent.
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There was an Afghan community in Australia from the 1860s, and some of them married Aboriginal women.
I am not saying that this man was one of the children of such a marriage, but it might be worth seeing if any such enlisted.
There was at least one case of a couple of Afghans opening fire on Australian civilians at Broken Hill, once Turkey was involved in WW1.
There was an interesting two part programme on these "Afghan Cameleers" on the BBC World Service recently:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02mnn26#auto