Site NameYamboucal Station (1), Maranoa Pastoral District
Aboriginal Place Name
Language GroupMandandanji
Present State/TerritoryQLD
Colony/State/Territory at the timeNSW
Police DistrictSurat
Latitude-26.333
Longitude149.078
Date23 Apr 1849
Attack TimeDay
VictimsAboriginal People
Victim DescriptionsAboriginal
Victims Killed40
Victims Killed Notes
AttackersColonists
Attacker DescriptionsBorder Police, Crowns Land Commissioner, Government Official(s), Settler(s), Stockmen/Drover(s)
Attackers Killed0
Attackers Killed Notes
TransportHorse
MotiveReprisal
Weapons UsedFirearm(s), Musket(s)
NarrativeAccording to Collins (2002, p 36), Settler Allan Macpherson, with a team of ten well-armed men, along with Crown Lands Commissioner Jack Durbin, and a party of border police, shot forty Aboriginal people at Yamboucal station. The massacre was in reprisal for Aboriginal warriors killing two bullock drivers from Macpherson's Mt Abundance Station who were taking wool by waggon to Brisbane for sale. According to William Telfer, the Aboriginal attack on the bullock drivers took place forty six kilometres 'on the Condamine side of Roma' (Telfer, 1980, p 43).
SourcesTelfer, 1980, p 43; Collins, 2002, pp 36-37. (Sources PDF)
Corroboration Rating**