‘We were the frontline’: Australia’s only all-Indigenous battalion remembered as last Torres Strait digger dies
by Aaron Smith in Cairns from on (#6DS43)
They were underpaid and trained with broom handles, but that didn't stop the Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion fighting for their country
The last surviving member of the Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion (TSLIB), the only all-Indigenous battalion to serve for the Australian Defence Force, has been laid to rest.
Mebai Warusam, 99, was buried on his home island of Saibai in the Torres Strait on 5 August, only weeks after the second last survivor, Awati Mau, 96, was buried in his community at the tip of Cape York.
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