. "Australian soldier" . "1920Z"^^ . "1990Z"^^ . . . . "Reginald Walter \"Reg\" Saunders, MBE (7 August 1920 \u2013 2 March 1990) was the first Aboriginal Australian to be commissioned as an officer in the Australian Army. He came from a military family, his forebears having served in the Boer War and the First World War. Enlisting as a soldier in 1940, he saw action during the Second World War in North Africa, Greece and Crete, before being commissioned as a lieutenant and serving as a platoon commander in New Guinea during 1944\u201345."@en . . . . "1990-03-02Z"^^ . "Saunders, Reg"@en . "1940Z"^^ . . . . . "1920-08-07Z"^^ . . . . "Australia" . . . . . .