Glenda Humes bursts with pride for her father. “Dad fought for kin, for family and for country,” she says. Capt Reginald Walter Saunders, one of most distinguished Indigenous servicemen, served in the Middle East, Greece and Japan, as well as New Guinea and Korea. Saunders fought at the Battle of 42nd Street in Crete, leading a bayonet charge against Nazi German forces. He and several fellow soldiers were then stranded after being left behind while the rest of their surviving battalion was evacuated. He managed to evade enemy forces for nearly 12 months, with the help of Cretan villagers. Others...