Crystal Jordan 16.04.2015 LIST OF INDIAN SOLDIERS - HELLES MEMORIAL GALLIPOLI NAME RANK REGIMENT AGAMSING RAI Rifleman 10th Gurkha Rifles AGANSING LIMBU Rifleman 10th Gurkha Rifles AIJANSING RAI Lance Naik 10th Gurkha Rifles AIMAN THAPA Rifleman 10th Gurkha Rifles AITABIR…
COME ON A JOURNEY WITH OZZIE THE INDIAN AS HE DISCOVERS SOME OF HIS AUSTRALIAN INDIAN HISTORY. There are five of these videos uploaded onto youtube, the links are below. Australian Indian History - Ozziesjourney 1 The Journey of…
Extract from: SIKH AND HINDU CREMATIONS IN AUSTRALIA; Putarb Singh Henty and Albury Indian Cemetery by Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan 2015. (This book footnoted) As stated by Sir Hartley Williams in 1892, "Cremation was perfectly legal and there was no law…
Pugaree is the usual name for an Indian Turban it comes from either the Hindi word Pagri or the Sanskrit word Parikara. The Pugaree was adopted by the British Army in India and worn on their hats or helmets;…
In March 1858 one hundred and thirty-two Goorah Wallahs (Horse Breakers) from the Bengal Army arrived at Parramatta, New South Wales to break remount horses. They landed in Sydney and were housed at Old Government House. They got drunk the first morning after…
Extract from: SIKH AND HINDU CREMATIONS IN AUSTRALIA...by Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan 2015. Putarb Singh aka Purtarb, was an itinerant hawker in Victoria and New South Wales. When he retired from hawking Putarb settled in Henty, New South Wales…
Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan © 2013 Len Kenna was born in Hamilton, Victoria, and as a young boy and he remembers an Indian Hawker, Gunter Singh, a Sikh, who visited his family home in his horse and wagon. Len's mother…
First Published 2006 Updated 2010/2013 Photo Collage: by Crystal Jordan © Are Indians An Ethnic Minority Vols 1-5 - Len Kenna and Crystal Jordan 2008-2013 When reading the following biographies the reader should have in mind that as the White Australia…
© Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan First Published 24 March 2012 Updated October 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…