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The Wills Tragedy, 1861

The Wills Tragedy. The arrival of the neighboring squatters & men collecting & burying the dead, after the attack by the blacks on H.S. Wills Esq's Station, Leichhardt District, Queensland. October 19, 1861. Watercolour by T.G. Moyle. Collection of the State Library of Queensland

Location

Cullin-la-ringo Station, QLD

Australia

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Cullin-la-ringo Station, c1875. Collection of Wills Family Records, image by Liz Huf

Collection of Wills Family Records, image by Liz Huf

Tommy Wills, c1875. Collection of Wills Family Records, image by Liz Huf

Collection of Wills Family Records, image by Liz Huf

Tommy Wills (right) with cricketing colleagues, 1864. MCC Collection.

MCC Collection

Thomas Wentworth Wills and Cullin-la-ringo Station

Thomas Wentworth Wills narrowly escaped death on 17 October 1861 when his father and 18 others were killed at Cullin-la-ringo Station on Garden Creek, near Springsure.

Native Police

England, like most European powers, conquered and ruled a large colonial empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Indigenous health

Queensland possesses two Indigenous groups: Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.