Jack Pollard transcript
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers should be aware that this documentary contains images and names of deceased people.
(Sound of whip birds)
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BLACK DIGGERS OF LOGAN
(Soulful music -piano)
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Well-worn stirrups, a leather bridle and metal spurs, are dangling, glowing in the early morning light.
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A man’s heavy woollen khaki military tunic is laid out. The camera focuses on the collar where there is a traditional brass Australian Army rising sun badge.
John Pollard:
You put that uniform on, you're not the same person.
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John Pollard is bending over strapping up his deep tan military riding boots and leather leggings.
John Pollard:
Something inside you changes.
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We see a typical set of three WW1 medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal displayed on top of a jar. This fades to a close up of a silver commemorative medallion with the words, QUEENSLANDERS REMEMBER LEST WE FORGET 1ST AIF 1914-1918 THE GREAT WAR, and a Light Horseman mounted on a rearing horse.
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John Pollard continues to strap on military boots, leather leggings and spurs.
John Pollard:
And you go elsewhere, and I've tried to understand it, I can't.
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John Pollard is seated in a light filled shed, facing the camera, wearing a grey button down shirt and a white cowboy hat. Behind him on wooden shelves are old green bottles, leather straps and saddles, pieces of wood and other old items.
John Pollard:
It's really brought Jack Pollard alive to me anyway. Hmmm.
(Music swells)
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John Pollard finishes strapping on spurs over his boots; he has a large silver ring on his left middle finger.
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Jack Pollard
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The camera pans from the laid out uniforms on the table, to a close up of the AIF Light Horse slouch hat with feathers and the Rising Sun hat badge.
(Upbeat guitar music)
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Out of focus close up of tree trunk in the foreground, in the background a rural scene of a field featuring sheep and horses. A wooden shed with a rusting iron roof can be seen surrounded by trees and bright green grass. The sun is shining in between the tree branches and leaves. Pans to John Pollard standing with a brown Australian stockhorse in a small grassy run placed in the middle of trees, an old shed can be seen in the distance, and there are trees in foreground.
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Close up of John beside the horse holding her and reassuring the horse while brushing her down.
John Pollard:
You gonna settle down, pretty girl.
(Birds chirping, gentle guitar music plays)
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Wide shot of John continuing to brush the horse down. A saddle and bridle are hung on the side of the fence.
John Pollard:
All my life, all of what I want to be around is horses.
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Camera cuts back to John Pollard seated in the shed facing the camera as he talks about his history.
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John Pollard
John Pollard:
I'd rather be with horses than people sometimes. (laughs) Yeah.
(Sound of cicadas fades to gentle guitar music)
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John holds his horse and continues talking to her as he brushes her mane.
John Pollard:
Gonna be in the parade. Aren't you, baby girl? Get you in town. Ride you right up the street, make everyone take notice of ya!
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Wide shot of John brushing the horse in the paddock cuts to John seated in the old shed speaking to the camera.
(Bird sounds in background)
John Pollard:
I've often wondered why I was a one off. You know, out of our family that loved being around them, and I put two and two together and I figured, yeah, it come from old Grandfather Jack.
(Poignant piano music plays)
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We see an old, worn, black and white photograph of John’s grandfather, Jack Pollard, in a shirt and trousers walking in a garden near a low set house.
(Cicadas chirping as if in the heat of the day)
John Pollard:
I remember when I was oh, I have no idea what age it was, but he was at an Anzac Parade in Innisfail.
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John is seated in the old shed continuing to speak to the camera.
John Pollard:
I remember I was only very tiny because I looked up and saw him standing there with his hat on and a pinstripe suit, and he had a couple of medals on.
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We see a closer view of the black and white photograph of Jack Pollard in a white collared button down shirt, walking as he smiles at the camera.
John Pollard:
And yeah, that was the only time I ever, ever see my grandfather and didn't know anything about. After that, I'd forgotten all about him until only just recently.
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John is seated in the old shed continuing to speak to the camera.
John Pollard:
Yeah, I was pretty fascinated by what he'd done and who he is, and wanted do something for him!
(Music change to more contemporary electronic sound)
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An aerial view of City of Logan. In the foreground there are trees and bushland surrounding houses and the background is of foggy mountains and a cloudy sky.
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City of Logan, Queensland
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An aerial view of Woodridge Railway Station as a passenger train arrives at Platform 2. There is a shot of people walking past and into shops alongside a road. A close up of a Logan City sign that has the words “Welcome to Logan Central”, with cars passing behind the sign. A close up of the façade of Logan Central Library featuring the Logan City Council logo. Two men, casually dressed, walk through the foyer of Logan Central Library, towards the glass doors.
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Toni Pollard and Harrison Pollard are seated on a couch at a table looking through documents in the Local Studies area of the library. An over the shoulder shot of Toni and Harrison shows them holding and examining a black and white photograph of Jack Pollard and Kitty Yarrie (nee Morgan), his wife.
(Music swells and then quietens)
Toni Pollard:
Even though we didn't know him at all, it's a huge sense of pride knowing that our ancestor...
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Toni Pollard is seated in the Local Studies area of the library with shelves and picture frames behind her. She is speaking to the camera about her family history.
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Toni Pollard
Granddaughter of Jack Pollard
Toni Pollard:
And it's a sense of identity too, and it reinforces that sense of, you know, my Aboriginality.
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Toni Pollard and Harrison Pollard are speaking softly to each other as they observe the photo of Jack Pollard and Kitty Yarrie (nee Morgan), his wife.
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Harrison Pollard is seated in the Local Studies area of the library, as he speaks to the camera wearing a 11th Light Horse Warwick Montrose Troop t-shirt. There are Aboriginal artworks hung on the wall behind him.
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Harrison Pollard
Grandson of Jack Pollard
Harrison Pollard:
We wanted to honour our granddad, you know, since I found out he was in the First World War, so it's been one of those things I've been wanting to do all my life.
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Toni Pollard and Harrison Pollard are seated on a couch at a table looking through documents and photos in the library, Toni Pollard is holding up a photo. Camera focuses on the old, black and white photo of Jack Pollard and his wife, Kitty Yarrie (nee Morgan), standing near a garden in front of a house.
Toni Pollard:
Just particularly our Pollards, we've been separated, you know, from family.
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A close up of Toni Pollard and Harrison Pollard having a conversation. Two black armchairs are placed side by side, Toni and Harrison can be seen from behind, seated on these chairs holding photos and documents and talking about them together.
Toni Pollard:
And so it's a bonding experience actually as well, because we're all sort of catching up and feeling like a family once again.
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Toni and Harrison are examining a colour photo of their brother, John Pollard, wearing a Light Horseman’s uniform and standing with two horses.
Toni Pollard:
Here’s Johnny.
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Harrison points to the photo.
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Camera zooms in on the colour photo of John Pollard wearing the Light Horseman’s uniform and standing with two horses.
John Pollard:
I don't know anything about my family history whatsoever. None. Not even my mother and father.
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We return to John Pollard seated in the old shed talking to the camera.
John Pollard:
All I remember is being put in homes.
(Glockenspiel single notes then swells with cicada noise)
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A black and white photo of St. Joseph’s Home, Neerkol in the distance and there is long grass and trees in foreground.
John Pollard:
The orphanage was just north of Rockhampton, a place called St Joseph's Home, Neerkol.
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In the fading light we see the silhouette of an arched metal sign with the words “ST. JOSEPH’S HOME” spanning between two brick walls.
(Sad music plays)
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Zoom in on an old black and white aerial view of St. Joseph’s Home and surrounding fields. In the centre there is a large open paved area enclosed by six main buildings, lined by a row of mature trees to one side and several structures behind the main church building.
John Pollard:
It wasn't a real good place. It wasn’t one of the nicest places.
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John Pollard continues speaking to us from the old shed.
(Quiet music plays)
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Two black and white interior photos are shown. One, a row of seven identical sets of taps, wash basins and mirrors in a bathroom at St Joseph’s Home. The other image is of an empty room with large windows, high ceilings, and broken ceiling fans.
(Cicada noise returns as John speaks)
John Pollard:
I knew we had little brothers and sisters, but in the orphanage you weren't allowed to mix with them or have anything to do with them.
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A black and white image of glass double doors with sheer flowing curtains.
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The photo shows a dark corridor with nine doors. At the end of the corridor is an abandoned piece of furniture in front of a single closed door.
John Pollard:
Me being the eldest, I was kept away from them a lot. Everyone was.
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John Pollard continues talking from the old shed.
John Pollard:
And you had no goodbye or hellos or anything. When it was time to ‘Bush’ it, you know, just find the gate and you were gone.
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A black and white photo of a St Joseph’s Home building in Rockhampton, in the foreground there is a tall wire fence and a tree. The building is two storeys made of brick, with windows surrounding the outside.
(Music and cicada's quieten and cease)
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Toni Pollard is seated in the Local Studies area of the library with shelves and picture frames behind her. She is speaking to the camera about her history.
Toni Pollard:
Growing up in the orphanage, Indigenous kids got treated a little bit differently to non-Indigenous. You’re told you're Indigenous, but what did that mean? You know, and because we didn't have the upbringing by parents that, that link of, you know, family.
(Cicada noise returns)
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John Pollard is seated in the shed.
John Pollard:
Just got away from the place as soon as I could (smiles and shrugs) and got into the bush. Yeah.
(Relaxed country music plays, cicada noise swells when John talks)
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John Pollard leaves a wooden building through a glass door with his hat and horse lead, there is a sign saying “HILLCREST” hanging at the entrance. John Pollard rides a quad bike down a dirt driveway, there is a fence and some trees running against the drive way. A horse and a foal gallop down a dirt path against a fence, there are trees in the background.
John Pollard:
I’ve learned so much in the bush, you know.
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John Pollard can be seen in a paddock in the distance, riding his quadbike and rounding up the horses.
John Pollard:
Like being brought up out there, with the country people and learning everything you can.
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John Pollard rides his quadbike in between trees in a field, a horse runs behind the trees in the background.
John Pollard:
Yeah. It's paid off. I think.
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A black and white photograph of a cowboy in a hat and leather chaps attempting to ride a bull bareback. A black and white photograph of two cowboys on horses in fenced yard, one horse is bucking, there is a crowd seated behind the fence. A black and white photograph of a cowboy in fringed leather chaps on a bucking horse, with a crowd in background watching him.
John Pollard:
A lot of the good rodeo riders, good boys, in my time were from Clermont and that area, you know.
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John Pollard talks to us from the old shed.
John Pollard:
So, yeah, I looked up to them and ended up being taken under their wing.
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Black and white photographs of cowboys riding bulls bareback with audiences in the background.
John Pollard:
And you know, you're out in the bush and something like that comes along. You got to have a crack at it. You know, there's nothing else to do. You know, we weren't into drugs and grog and all that sort of rubbish.
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John Pollard is seated in the shed, facing the camera as he talks about his history.
John Pollard:
You know, we were just having a good time.
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Old colour photographs of cowboys riding bucking horses and bulls at Rodeo’s. Black and white rodeo photographs of cowboys riding bucking bulls.
John Pollard:
I just could not get away from horses and I still can't get away from them.
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John Pollard is seated in the shed, facing the camera as he talks about his history.
John Pollard
That's Jack Pollard all over mate. It's gotta be. Hasn't it?
(Quiet guitar music with aboriginal clap sticks and birds)
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Photographs of soldiers enlisted from The Queenslander Pictorial supplement to The Queenslander, 1917. Jack Pollard’s photograph is highlighted with ‘J Pollard’ is written underneath.
Gary Oakley:
Jack Pollard, he was a Queenslander.
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A closer look a Jack Pollard’s portrait in The Queenslander Pictorial supplement to The Queenslander, 1917.
Gary Oakley:
He would have probably applied to join the Light Horse because he would have had some skill as a horseman to start with.
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A close up of Jack Pollard’s signature on his Enlistment form. A black and white photograph of a group portrait including 15 soldiers of the 3rd General Service Reinforcements (Queensland).
Gary Oakley:
At the time that these men served, they were not citizens in their our own country.
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Gary Oakley
Australian War Memorial
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Head and shoulder shot of Gary Oakley wearing a peach and white checked button down shirt, standing in bush land as he speaks to the camera on the history of Jack Pollard.
Gary Oakley:
The Australian Defence Force was basically the first equal opportunity employer of Indigenous Australians, because if you pass the recruiter and you went to the depot, in the majority, you were allowed to stay in the Defence Force. It was up to the recruiting medical officer at the depot to make that distinction. And most just ignored who you were, because all they saw was another recruit.
(Guitar strums)
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A photograph of the Australian Imperial Force Nominal Roll – Enlisted, highlighting Jack Pollard’s name and other details such as: rank, age, trade or calling, address at date of enrolment, next of kin and address, religion and date of joining.
Gary Oakley:
Jack Pollard, would have been put into reinforcement once he's trained in Australia and then he would have been sent overseas.
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Gary Oakley wearing a peach and white button down shirt, standing in bush land as he speaks to the camera on the history of Jack Pollard.
Gary Oakley:
He wouldn't have gone to France, or Belgium, he would have gone to Palestine.
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Black and white video footage recreating the Light Horsemen in Palestine showing the Australian Light Horse on the march in the desert at Sheich Nuran.
Gary Oakley:
Interesting that he's in the 11th Light Horse, because the 11th Light Horse had the most Indigenous soldiers in it than any unit in the First AIF. It had over 40 members who were Aboriginal. The majority of them from Queensland. They were actually called the Queensland Black Watch.
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A screenshot of a newspaper article on Aborigines: 11th Light Horse. A close up of the article with the words “was comprised of a full troop of full-bloods and half-caste aborigines, and were known to us as the ‘Queensland Black Watch.’”
Gary Oakley:
A Major wrote about them in the 1930s stating what great soldiers they were and that they would always be seen out the front whenever they were attacking.
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A black and white photograph of the Light Horsemen in Palestine riding their horses along the sand.
Harrison Pollard:
Riding and shooting at the same time. It was really difficult. And for (pause)
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Harrison Pollard is seated at the library as he speaks to the camera wearing a 11th Light Horse Warwick Montrose Troop t-shirt. There are Aboriginal artworks hung on the wall behind him.
Harrison Pollard:
the Indigenous soldiers to ride a horse and fight, it became natural to them, apparently.
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Black and white photographs of a World War I battle scenes. Three rows of Australian Light Horse mounted infantry, charging across a flat dusty plain, bayonets drawn in a full stretch gallop. A second black photo shows a similar scene with the addition of three puffs of smoke from artillery fire.
Harrison Pollard:
Would've been frightening, too I mean, people shooting at you, bombs, blasting right beside at you, would've been chaotic. People screaming. You know.
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Gary Oakley wearing a peach and white button down shirt, standing in bush land as he speaks to the camera on the history of Jack Pollard.
Gary Oakley:
He would have gone through what they call the Battle of Samakh.
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A map showing the Sea of Galilee and the town of Samakh.
Gary Oakley:
Which was a railway station on the Sea of Galilee, which was a point where…
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Black and white photograph of a group of Australian Light Horse soldiers with a horse, standing in front of the Samakh train station, a stone building. Littered around them is the debris of war, a cannon, and upturned furniture, bodies of injured or dead men.
Gary Oakley:
…the Germans and Turks stored and distributed their stores and it was one of the last battles in Palestine.
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A black and white photograph shows first aid being administered to soldiers lying on the ground, dead or injured, by several soldiers wearing Red Cross armbands. A Red Cross field ambulance can be seen in the background on the left. Another black and white photograph shows dead horses in a grassy field beside the Samakh railway station after the battle.
Gary Oakley:
He was lucky to get through the First World War without being wounded, and he would have returned to Australia.
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A close up of Jack Pollard’s Casualty Form – Active Service fades out.
Gary Oakley:
And unfortunately, he would go back into community and disappeared.
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A black and white photograph of Jack Pollard standing in a back yard, in front of a tree, continues to slowly zoom into photo
(Sad flute music)
Gary Oakley:
And this is the unfortunate thing. Whatever agency ran that community didn't allow them to go out and march on Anzac Day.
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A closer look of the black and white photograph showing Jack Pollard standing in front of a tree smiling at the camera.
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Gary Oakley wearing a peach and white button down shirt, standing in bush land as he speaks to the camera on the history of Jack Pollard.
Gary Oakley:
Didn't allow them the freedoms that non-Indigenous soldiers had. They didn't get to join those associations where they could all get together and talk about their problems and help themselves. So these men went back into community and virtually disappeared.
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John Pollard is sitting at a desk in his home, looking at documents including Jack Pollard’s enlistment papers.
(Flute music fades to bird and cicada noise)
John Pollard:
When I found he was in the Light Horse I wanted to find out what Troop he was with and found out he was in the 11th. Found out where the 11th was, they’re based at Warwick.
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John Pollard is seated at his desk looking at documents, with his riding hat in the foreground. There are also books, photo frames, jars and other items that can be seen on his desk.
John Pollard:
The troop leader up there is called Ray Kuhn.
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A framed poster hung on the wall, of The Australian Light Horse Association with an illustration of a mounted horse.
John Pollard:
Had a yarn to him, told him who I was and told him who grandfather was.
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Close up of a wooden framed sepia photo of Jack Pollard in uniform.
John Pollard:
And what he'd done. And he was pretty stoked about it. So went up and met the man and had a good talk to him.
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John Pollard is seated in the old shed, smiling, facing the camera.
John Pollard:
Yeah. And sort of like joined up there and then on the spot.
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John Pollard preparing to go for a ride in Light Horseman riding kit. Ray Kuhn, also in a light horse uniform, walks into the room. They greet each other, shake hands and have a conversation.
John Pollard:
Good Day, Mate.
Ray Kuhn:
Good day, John. How are you? Good to see you again.
John Pollard:
You too mate. What are we up to today?
Ray Kuhn:
A bit of drill training down the back paddock, mate.
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Close up of John’s head and shoulders. In the background we see Light horse displays and memorabilia. John puts on his army hat and walks off with Ray Kuhn.
John Pollard:
Okay mate, we'll go and run a couple of horses up there.
Ray Kuhn:
Sounds good to me then.
Ray Kuhn:
Righto.
(Gentle guitar riff)
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John Pollard and Ray Kuhn walk up to a horse paddock and place their saddles on the wooden fence.
Toni Pollard:
To learn that he joined, it’s so fitting.
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Toni Pollard is seated at the library with shelves and picture frames behind her. She is speaking to the camera about her history.
Toni Pollard:
Even you know, fellow soldiers, just can't believe, what a natural he is.
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John Pollard and Ray Kuhn, dressed in light horse re-enactment uniforms, are mounted on their horses training them in a grassy field as preparation for parades and military displays.
John Pollard:
Pretty hard to get a green horse to learn all this straight up, isn't it?
Ray Kuhn:
Yeah mate.
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Toni Pollard is seated at the Local Studies area of the library with shelves and picture frames behind her. She is speaking to the camera about her brother John.
Toni Pollard:
I think from now on, this will be a focus. Such a positive experience for him, you know, for once in his life.
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John Pollard and Ray Kuhn riding their horses in formation, side by side, as they train the horses.
Ray Kuhn:
Troop left wheel.
John Pollard:
Troop left wheel.
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Front shot of John and Ray mounted on horses walking in a grassy green field.
John Pollard:
Yes, green horses might get a jump on him. And had to put them all through this themselves, straight up and then straight out into the desert.
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Harrison Pollard is seated at the Local Studies area in the library as he speaks to the camera wearing a 11th Light Horse Warwick Montrose Troop t-shirt. There are Aboriginal artworks hung on the wall behind him.
Harrison Pollard:
When Johnny decided to join up with the Light Horse, when he asked me to join and I said yeah, that would be great because I've always wanted to honour my granddad.
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Recent colour photographs: one of three Light Horse men, including Harrison Pollard, on horseback standing in a field. A modern photograph of a street parade with the ‘11th Light Horse Warwick Montrose Troop’ banner held by two Light horse re-enactment soldiers on foot, followed by nine mounted Light horse soldiers.
Harrison Pollard:
It's good to get an understanding of what they done back then and how to behave. Have a certain posture about you and a sense of pride, because you're not only representing the Light Horsemen today.
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Harrison Pollard is seated at the library as he speaks to the camera wearing a 11th Light Horse Warwick Montrose Troop t-shirt. There are Aboriginal artworks hung on the wall behind him.
Harrison Pollard:
You’re representing the Light Horsemen past.
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Out in a green field John Pollard and Ray Kuhn practice riding their horses in troop formation.
Ray Kuhn:
Troop. Halt!
Toni Pollard:
For me personally, this really cements for me my feelings as an Aboriginal person. You know.
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Toni Pollard is seated at the Local Studies Area of the library with shelves and picture frames behind her. She is speaking to the camera about her history.
Toni Pollard:
Yeah, I love being a Pollard. It's a great sense of who I am.
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A black and white informal group portrait of 24 members of the Australian Light Horse all wearing hats, some with emu feathers. Jack Pollard is highlighted seated in the middle row, second from left.
John Pollard:
I'd just like more Aboriginal people if they could, have a look in their history and see if there is anybody in there that's been in the armed forces and warrant that respect.
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John Pollard is seated in the old shed, speaking to camera.
John Pollard:
And have a look at your uncles and your grandfather's and that. Stand up honour them. Wear their medals and go and Anzac Day Parade for them, you know, they never got the treatment they should have got years ago. They never got the recognition. They never got nothing. They didn't get their little farm blocks like the other blokes did. They got nothing. So if I can get a couple of Aboriginal blokes to ride a horse beside me in the Anzac Day Parade. I'll be the proudest man in Australia and so should they be, for what they're doing and for their people.
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A close up of the legs of two riders and horses trotting side by side. Camera pans out to show Ray Kuhn and John Pollard riding their horses at a trot beside each other. Purple flowers cover the grass in the field.
John Pollard:
Since I've joined with the 11th, the stuff that I found out about my grandfather makes me proud to be John Pollard.
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Black and white footage of Light Horseman riding in a line through the desert in Palestine during WW1.
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Black and white footage of Light Horseman riding at a walk towards the mosque at Beersheba. There are three motor cars parked in front of the mosque and a motorbike drives past on the dirt road.
John Pollard:
You know, a grandson of Jack, yeah mate.
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John Pollard is seated in an old shed, facing the camera.
John Pollard:
The Light Horseman, that makes it even better. (Laughs) Aboriginal Light Horseman, you can’t be better than that can you?
(Slow music)
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Front view of John Pollard and Ray Kuhn in Light Horseman uniforms riding their horses toward camera; zoom into close shot of John Pollard halting his horse.
Ray Kuhn:
Prepare to halt. Halt!
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Producer & Director
DOUGLAS WATKIN
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Editor
AXEL GRIGOR
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Camera & Sound
MATT COX
LUCAS TOMOANA
Production Manager
AMANDA KAYE
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Logan City Council gratefully acknowledges the time, resources, and stories of the following:
Toni Pollard
Terri Pollard
John Pollard
Harrison Pollard
Denise Cedric
Gary Oakley, Australian War Memorial
Nyeumba Meta Advisory Group
Ray Kuhn, Warwick Montrose 11th Light Horse Troop
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Logan City Council acknowledges permission granted by the Australian War Memorial, National Archives of Australia, Sarah Osborn, Sara Rosetta Photography, Sisters of Mercy Archives Rockhampton, State Library of Queensland and the United Kingdom Government to digitally reproduce the following:
Australian War Memorial
HO2678: Maadi, Egypt 195. Australian Light Horsemen preparing their horses for manoeuvrers
P01074.001: Group portrait of the 3rd General Service Reinforcements (Queensland). Egypt for the Light Horse recruits for 1917
B01958: The Australian Light Horse on the march on the desert sand at Sheich Nuran
P03723.001: ‘Thunder of a light horse charge’
H15202: Samakh, North Palestine. September 1918/ the railway station for a few minutes after being captured by the 11th Australian Light Horse Regiment
P02668.006: Samakh wounded
B00284: Dead horses at Samakh, on South Coast, Sea of Galilee, after a charge by the Australian Light Horse
P01719001: Informal group portrait of 24 members of the Australian Light Horse, possibility from the 5th Light Horse Regiment and probably at a camp in Palestine
F00042: With the Australian Forces in Palestine
National Archives of Australia
NAA: B2455, POLLARD, JACK
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Sarah Osborn
Images taken from the work, ‘Forgotten Australians: St Joseph’s Home Neerkol
The Old Gate, Neerkol, 2012
Looking Back, Neerkol, 2012
www.sarah.osborn.com
Sara Rosetta Photography
Five photos of Neerkol Orphanage
www.sararosetta.com
Sisters of Mercy Archives, Rockhampton
Aerial View of St Joseph’s Home
State Library of Queensland
J. Pollard, one of the soldiers photographed in The Queenslander Pictorial supplement to The Queenslander, 1917
Aborigines: 11th Light Horse, Revelle, 30 September, 1931
United Kingdom Government
Falls Map 37 Battle of Samakh 25 September 1918
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This project is proudly supported by Logan City Council and the Queensland Government
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