Veteran Story: My great great uncle Arthur Bartle, a Darug man was in the Light Horse and went to South Africa where he was killed in action. Shane Smithers head of Program with the Badanami Centre for Indigenous Education. Arthur Bartle is born in 1869 at Eastern Creek, a descendant of Matora Bungaree, he joins the Australian Light Horse Brigade and serves in the Boer war. Arthur is the son of Mary Ann Bartle nee Thomas.
