| Site Name | Anna's Reservoir |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Anmatjere |
| Colony | SA |
| Present State/Territory | NT |
| Police District | Alice Springs |
| Coordinates (imprecise to approx. 250m) | -22.585,133.139,0 |
| Date | Between 7 Aug 1884 and 7 Sep 1884 |
| Attack Time | Attack - night. Reprisals - day. |
| Aboriginal People Killed | 15 |
| Aboriginal People Killed Notes | Dead included Slim Jim, Boko, Clubfoot and Jimmy Mullins, allegedly shot by Trackers. |
| Non-Aboriginal People Killed | 0 |
| Non-Aboriginal People Killed Notes | |
| Attacker Category | Anmatjere |
| Attacker Details | Traditional people. |
| Motive | Attempting to drive colonists away from their land. |
| Type Of Motive | Aboriginal attack followed by colonist reprisal. |
| Weapons Used | Spears in attack; firearms in defence and reprisal. |
| Notes | Men. |
| Narrative | Harry Figg (stockman) and Thomas Coombes (cook) attacked at Anna's Reservoir Homestead. Attackers crept into Coombes' room and speared him 8 times then set the roof alight. Figg emerged from the homestead, shooting four dead, before being speared between the shoulders. Both wounded and badly burnt, they escaped to a stock camp 50 miles away and survived.Const William Willshire & Const Charlie Brookes, 2 Aboriginal trackers and 4 volunteers (Alec Ross, Harry Price, Summard and McBeth) went in pursuit, reporting they had shot dead four Anmatjere men. Official deaths were eight; Kimber reports 15. Morrison refers to part of the reprisal as the Blackfellow Bones Hill Massacre. |
| Sources | Traynor 2016; 120-121; Kimber www.australianfrontierconflicts.com.au; Adelaide Observer, 20 Sept 1884; NTTG, 25 Oct 1884. (Sources PDF) |
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