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World War 1, South-West Asia, Turkey, Gallipoli, 897 MASON, 28 Battalion, 1915
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Photograph of 897 Private Randell Mason, 28 Battalion
Randell Mason was born at Mortigallup, 80 kilometres north-west of Albany in Western Australia, on 18 September 1876. He was the third of eight children born to Fanny Harris and a Cambridge-educated shepherd William Bonworth Mason, who were married in 1872. Fanny was the daughter of a sealer John Harris and Towser, an Aboriginal woman from the Portland Bay area in Victoria. Born at sea near Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Fanny was educated at the Annesfield School for Aboriginal children in Albany from 1852 through to 1859.
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cwa-org-32-54-708
Contextual Information
The service of 13 Diggers, now irecognised as indigenous, original ANZACs, who served with the Australian Imperial Force in Gallipoli are commemorated by name in dioramas in the World War 1 Gallery at the Australian Army Museum of Western Australia.
Australian Army Museum of Western Australia
Australian Army Museum of Western Australia
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