Saturday 10th June 2017. Private Sarn Singh Johal and Private Nain Singh Sailani were honoured at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, with a Wreath Laying at the Last Post Ceremony, by the The High Commissioner of India in Australia…
Putarb was an itinerant hawker in Victoria and New South Wales. When he retired from hawking Putarb settled in Henty, New South Wales and lived in a shed behind the saleyards. He was a picturesque figure in Henty and remembered…
Pre 1950 the Common at Lavington, New South Wales, was declared a cemetery and was used to cremate Indians who lived in the area, many of whom had served in the Indian Army under General Roberts. This was not unusual as…
© Len Kenna and Crystal Jordan - February 2014 Bud Singh was born in 1873 in the Punjab, India. He arrived in Australia in 1899. He stated that he was in the Cavalry in India and that he had performed with…
© Crystal Jordan and Len Kenna Said Ahmad Shah also known as Ahmed and Hamid was a tall well built man, and a Moslem High Priest who was born in India about 1867. He was also a Hawker in Australia…