© Len Kenna and Crystal Jordan 2014 Have you ever wondered how Indian Sailors were treated while sailing on trading vessels that visited Australia in the early days of Settlement? When the “Shar of Hormus” landed in Sydney, in the…
AUSTRALIAN AND INDIAN SOLDIERS WERE COMRADES IN ARMS AT GALLOPOLLI FROM DAY ONE - THEY FOUGHT TOGETHER-WERE WOUNDED AND DIED TOGETHER - ATE MEALS TOGETHER - SHARED DUGOUTS TOGETHER AUSTRALIANS WERE REMEMBERED - WHY NOT THE INDIANS!? When the Anzacs were ready to…
CLICK HERE FILM 1 POW's being treated and receiving turbans. CLICK HERE FILM 2 POW's keeping fit and exercising at Rabual New Guinea (Films Courtesy of the Australian War Memorial) The Sikh and Indian POW's in New Guinea were repatriated by…
INDIAN SOLDIERS WERE: EATEN ALIVE – MURDERED - TORTURED – BEATEN & STARVED IN NEW GUINEA. …
© 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…
Len Kenna 10.04.2015 As discussed earlier, the first settlement in New South Wales was under the control of Europeans who had either worked or lived in India and brought the administrative skills that they had learned in India to New…
Len Kenna 07.04.2015 The Second Fleet arrived in 1790, two years after the landing of the First Fleet, and found that the newly formed Colony was on the verge of collapse, because of a severe lack of food and the…
Len Kenna 05.04.2015 When I say that Indians were Pioneers in every sense of the word; I don’t mean that they pioneered Australia in the romantic image of today; fighting their way through the virgin bush with their herds of…
Len Kenna 30.03.2015 In 2001, George Lekakis Chairman of Multicultural Affairs Victoria, asked Crystal Jordan and I to write a definitive history of Indians in Australia with three main aims: To reduce Racism in Victoria. To write the History in such…
Len Kenna The small ship Sydney Cove sailed from Calcutta on the 10th of November 1796 with a crew of 8 Anglo Indians crewmen and officers, an Anglo Indian passenger and his manservant and 44 Indian Lascars, with cargo for New South…