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Australian Army Museum of Western Australia > Records

World War 1, South-West Asia, Turkiye, Gallipoli, Anzac Cove, 2515 MELBOURNE, 5 Battalion, 1915

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They Served With Honour - Indigenous Servicemen at Gallipoli

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Photograph of 2515 Private James Melbourne

James ‘Jimmy’ Edward Melbourne was born in the York area of Western Australia in 1876. Jimmy was the son of an Aboriginal woman called Sarah, and Charles Melbourne, a labourer and orderly at the York Hospital.

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The service of 13 Diggers, now recognised 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.

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