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Australia's First Indigenous Military Cross Recipient's Story Rediscovered
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- The story of Sidney Leonard Morse, Australia's first Indigenous recipient of the Military Cross in 1943, has been rediscovered by a volunteer historian at the War Memorial.
- Awarded for gallantry in New Guinea, his achievements were previously unknown to his distant relatives in Tasmania.
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The story of Sidney Leonard Morse, Australia's first Indigenous recipient of the Military Cross in 1943, has been rediscovered by a volunteer historian at the War Memorial. Awarded for gallantry in New Guinea, his achievements were previously unknown to his distant relatives in Tasmania.
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