Corpl Wauchop and party fire upon a group 40 Aboriginal people near Mount Deception, 27 July 1863

Date: 27 Jul 1863
Place: Red Hill, eight miles from St A'Beckett's
On 27 July, police troopers travelling with one of Glenn's stockkeepers, came upon a party of about forty Aboriginal men near Red Hill who were said to be in possession of stolen property. After waddies and boomerangs were allegedly thrown at them, the party fired on them with revolvers. Wauchop reports that some were no doubt struck, but doesn’t know how many.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
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  • Corpl Wauchop and party fire upon a group 40 Aboriginal people near Mount Deception, 27 July 1863
    27 Jul 1863 — Red Hill, eight miles from St A'Beckett's
    On 27 July, police troopers travelling with one of Glenn's stockkeepers, came upon a party of about forty Aboriginal men near Red Hill who were said to be in possession of stolen property. After waddies and boomerangs were allegedly thrown at them, the party fired on them with revolvers. Wauchop reports that some were no doubt struck, but doesn’t know how many.
    (See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
    Source: Robert Foster, Skye Krichauff and Amanda Nettelbeck, The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 2024, http://ua.edu.au/south-australian-frontier