Aboriginal Servicemen and Women honoured
June 6, 2014
Aboriginal servicemen and women, past and present, were honoured on Saturday 31 May in Melbourne at the ninth annual Victorian Indigenous Remembrance Service held at the Shrine of Remembrance as part of National Reconciliation Week.
A wreath was laid on the Shrine Forecourt to commemorate the estimated 800 – 1,000 Aboriginal Australians who fought in the First World War and the 3,000 – 4,000 in the Second World War.
