Migrants from India have been arriving on Australian shores since the early days of settlement and possibly before that time. However, this article is concentrating on Indians that arrived in Australia after European Settlement in 1788. The Indians that arrived…
Who was the first Sikh to wear a turban in the Australian Imperial Forces? © Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan 28 July 2017
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…
© Len Kenna and Crystal Jordan 2017 The first match of Men’s Inter-Varsity Hockey was played at the Melbourne University Oval in 1909. The hockey team from Sydney University competed against Melbourne University with Melbourne being the victors. Hockey Teams…
1890 -1892 The first Authorised Official and Registered Cremation in Australia was in 1890 (1), when a Chinese leper named Foo Choo, who had been a patient at the Quarantine Station at Point Nepean, died and was cremated at the Station.(2) However,…
Sketches of soldiers from 100 of the Indian Contingent that were at the Commonwealth of Australia Inaugural Celebrations. The contingent left Bombay, India for Sydney, Australia on the 23 November 1900 and returned to India to 4 April 1901from Sydney.…
Flying Officer Frederic SINGH - Aka: STUART Frederic Robert Hamilton Singh born on the 20 July 1918 and Margaret Helen Hamilton Singh who enlisted in the Royal Australian Airforce (R.A.A.F.) during World War Two were the great-great-grandchildren of Dabee Singh, a…
Why have both LEN KENNA & CRYSTAL JORDAN worked on Australian Indian History for so long? From both of our childhoods we have had a strong interest in India. Also, it is common for Australians to work long term in this…
© Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan 2014 Wrestling was a National sport in India and many Indians maintained their interest in the sport when they came to Australia competing at all levels of the sport that were staged in a wide…
