Aboriginal Diggers ‘couldn’t even get a beer in a pub’ – Illawarra Mercury

April 22, 2013, 10 p.m.

Thursday is one of the days on the Australian calendar that is more sacred than many religious holidays. Even McDonald’s closes its doors until after 11am to honour the men and women who served and are still serving Australia in theatres of war.

The steps of the Australian War Memorial will be crowded with those wanting to pay their respects, honour the dead and remind us of that famous battle in Gallipoli on April 25, 1915.

A 10-minute walk away from the iconic dome of the war memorial, a smaller, less well-known commemoration will also have its share of people paying their respects. The small plaque on a boulder in the bush is dedicated to the Australian Aboriginal soldiers who have lost their lives in battle in every war in which Australia has participated, but whom most Australians know little about.

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