Media Type: Prominent People

November 13, 2025

Wallaga Lake Gumleaf Band

The Wallaga Lake Aboriginal Gumleaf Band was a celebrated musical group from Yuin Country. Active from the 1910s to the 1950s, the…

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Tunungeranbrun

Tunungeranbrun was the Lore man of the Bugelli-Manji Yuin born in the Moruya district before the arrival of the first white settlers….

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Max Harrison

Max Dulumunmun Harrison (29 February 1936 – 11 December 2021) was an Elder of the Yuin Nation and a distinguished educator, author…

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Shirley Foster

Shirley Foster was a respected Yuin Elder whose life journey embodied resilience, cultural revival, and community leadership. Born to Agnes Harrison and…

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Anne Thomas

Anne Wirrimah Thomas (née Morris) was a Biripi woman respected by the local Yuin community on the Far South Coast of NSW….

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November 11, 2025

Albert Scott

Private Albert Oswald Scott (Service No. VX140371) served in the Australian Army during the Second World War, enlisting 12 April 1943 and…

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Andy Bond

Andy Bond was born in Wallaga Lake, in 1883 and the Australian military records list his service number as 4509, with the…

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Frank Stewart

Frank Stewart (Service No. 3860) was born in Wallaga Lake and served as an Australian soldier with the 47th Australian Infantry Battalion…

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Harry Cooley

Henry Joseph “Harry” Cooley (born 14 September 1882, Mount Hope, New South Wales died 19 April 1964, Sydney) was an Yuin who…

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Herbert Chapman

Herbert Chapman was a respected Elder of the Walbanga (Yuin) people on the South Coast of New South Wales, whose life embodied…

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Welcome to the Yuin Digital Keeping Place. This website is intended to record and share information on events and people that have impacted on Yuin history, language and lifestyle. Over the coming years, we will include an even wider and richer collection of stories from Yuin Families.