ABSTRACT
Eric Bogle's song 'Lost Soul' is about the fate of one Ngarrindjeri soldier from the Point McLeay mission who volunteered, fought and was killed on the Western Front. Instead he turned to focus, once again, on the unsung or forgotten participants, and those for whom the nature of memorialisation as the twentieth century progressed must have seemed progressively alien. This chapter explores Aboriginal Anzacs and their story as seen through a single volunteer, in life, death and commemoration; to horses and their relationship with both war and their handlers. Lastly to the elderly and one of the last commemorations in the Dardanelles that involved 'diggers' going back to the battlefields of 1915. Some of Bogle's war-related songs are not so compassionate, however, and instead cast an icy glare at Australia and the Australians who inherited the legacy of the Anzacs. In compositions like 'A Good Man' he compares the veteran to a modern yob.
