Veteran Story: Email of 12 April 2013 from Colin Simpson re an article entitled 'The Lost Trackers: Aboriginal Servicemen in the 2nd Boer War' by Dale Kerwin in Sabretache vol. LIV no. 1 March 2013. The lost trackers : Aboriginal servicemen in the 2nd Boer War / Dale Kerwin. Abstract: Discusses Indigenous soldiers participation in the South African War, 1899-1902 (Boer War); includes information on discriminatory legislation, particularly in Queensland, resulting in a lack of recorded information on Indigenous veterans; discusses history of the involvement of Australian states and territories in the Boer War; includes history of police trackers in Queensland and New South Wales; presents evidence of participation by Indigenous soldiers including evidence from Cultural Heritage Mapping projects; mentions Gerome Locke from the Dharug / Daruk / Darug people who served with the New South Wales volunteer rifles in the 1880s and World War I; includes list of 8 confirmed and 4 unconfirmed Indigenous Boer War veterans
