SOURCES AND FURTHER READING: The authors respectfully acknowledge the Gomeroi people of New South Wales and their elders, past and present. This account is based on sources in the public domain, most importantly the service dossier of William Irwin NAA: B2455, IRWIN, WILLIAM ALLEN. The authors acknowledge Brad Manera, Executive Manager of the Anzac Memorial in Sydney, who alerted them to this story and who has facilitated the community’s attempt to recover Irwin’s decoration. The medals in question will be stamped with his name and service number: William Irwin, No. 792. For general studies of Aboriginal people in the First AIF see Philippa Scarlett, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Volunteers for the AIF: The Indigenous Response to World War One (Canberra: Indigenous Histories, 2013); Alick Jackomos and Derek Fowell, Forgotten Heroes: Aborigines at War from the Somme to Vietnam (Melbourne: Victoria Press, 1993). The authors await the important work of Mick Dodson, John Maynard and Jack Pearson into Indigenous service.