Roland Carter
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Roland Winzel Carter (1892–1960) was an Indigenous Australian who was born in
Raukkan, South Australia Raukkan is an Australian Aboriginal community situated on the south-eastern shore of Lake Alexandrina in the locality of Narrung, southeast of the centre of South Australia's capital, Adelaide. Raukkan is "regarded as the home and heartland ...
, and was the first of the
Ngarrindjeri The Ngarrindjeri people are the traditional Aboriginal Australian people of the lower Murray River, eastern Fleurieu Peninsula, and the Coorong of the southern-central area of the state of South Australia. The term ''Ngarrindjeri'' means "belo ...
people to enlist in the
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to fight in
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. Carter was wounded and captured during combat at Noreuil in northern France on 2 April 1917. He was initially held as a prisoner of war at
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in Germany and later at the Halbmondlager POW camp where he and Douglas Grant were the only Australian aboriginal soldiers in a camp intended principally for the holding of Moslem prisoners of war. Following the war, Carter was repatriated to
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and then to South Australia where he returned to Raukkan where he lived until his death.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Carter, Roland Australian soldiers 1892 births 1960 deaths Indigenous Australian military personnel Australian prisoners of war World War I prisoners of war held by Germany Ngarrindjeri people Military personnel from South Australia Australian military personnel of World War I Australian Army soldiers