Bringing His Spirit Home

Podcast: Bringing His Spirit Home: Private Arthur Thomas Walker, Ngarrindjeri ANZAC
Host: Megan Spencer
Category: Society & Culture
Sub-Category: Culture & Identity, History, Universities & GLAM
First Episode: 2024

Bringing His Spirit Home explores the unique WWI story of Ngarrindjeri Anzac, Private Arthur Thomas Walker, a Ramindjeri man of the Ngarrindjeri nation, who served in Gallipoli in 1915. In August 1916, during the Battle for Mouquet Farm, he was killed-in-action on a cold and rainy night, in a field in France. He is one of the thousands of soldiers with no known grave While Arthur Walker died in a country far away from his own, fighting in a war that was illegal for him to fight in, his powerful legacy lives on through his family, who actively commemorate his story, service and sacrifice. For many years First Nations military service didn’t form part of the revered Australian ANZAC story. Through the many different voices in this podcast we find out how that’s changing. Private Arthur Walker’s story creates an opportunity to explore exactly what the term ANZAC means – and the ANZAC spirit. cinematic commemorative history podcast that elevates the important story of Indigenous military service.

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