| Site Name | Branch Creek, Wollogorang Station |
| Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Place Name | |
| Language Group, Nation or People | Garrawa |
| Present State/Territory | NT |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | SA |
| Police District | Borroloola |
| Latitude | -17.227 |
| Longitude | 137.983 |
| Date | Between 15 Jul 1886 and 17 Jul 1886 |
| Attack Time | Day |
| Victims | Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People |
| Victim Descriptions | |
| Victims Killed | 15 |
| Victims Killed Notes | Garrawa men, women and children |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Pastoralist(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Firearm(s) |
| Narrative | Roberts (2005, p 201) wrote: "Lawrence Wells, a member of the border survey party, called at Westmoreland station in August 1886 where he learned of a massacre on Wollogorang [Station]. At a place called The Pocket, on Branch Creek, he was told that 'many natives had been shot by the whites for cattle-spearing - the gins and picaninnies sometimes sharing the same fate'. Among the station managers and stockmen in this border country, Wells observed, were 'rough, hard cases, quite capable of retaliating and taking the law into their own hands' for the spearing of cattle." |
| Sources | Roberts, 2005, p 201. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | * |
