Roland Winzel Carter (1892–1960) was an Indigenous Australian who was born in Raukkan, South Australia, and was the first of the Ngarrindjeri people to enlist in the First Australian Imperial Force to fight in World War I.[1][2]

Carter was wounded and captured during combat at Noreuil in northern France on 2 April 1917. He was initially held as a prisoner of war at Zerbst in Germany and later at the Halbmondlager POW camp where he and Douglas Grant were the only Australian aboriginal soldiers in a camp intended principally for the holding of Moslem prisoners of war.[3]

Following the war, Carter was repatriated to England and then to South Australia where he returned to Raukkan where he lived until his death.

References

  1. ^ "Wartime magazine issue 76 | The Australian War Memorial". www.awm.gov.au. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Private Roland Winzel Carter". The Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Photographs relating to 3069 David George Horwood 50th Battalion". The Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 2 July 2019.

Further reading

Adam, Mary-Clare; Sloggett, Robyn (19 February 2018). "Roland Carter and Leonhard Adam: Friendship in the Preservation of Ngarrindjeri Knowledge and Cultural Heritage". Australian Historical Studies. 49 (1): 44–62. doi:10.1080/1031461X.2017.1418901. S2CID 148852493.

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