Site NameArmstrong's Crossing, Blackfellows Creek, Lockyer Valley
Aboriginal Place Name
Language Group
Present State/TerritoryQLD
Colony/State/Territory at the timeNSW
Police DistrictMoreton Bay
Latitude-27.852
Longitude152.222
DateBetween 1 Jan 1843 and 31 Dec 1843
Attack Time
VictimsAboriginal People
Victim DescriptionsAboriginal
Victims Killed6
Victims Killed Notes
AttackersOther
Attacker DescriptionsSoldier(s)
Attackers Killed0
Attackers Killed Notes
TransportFoot
MotiveOpportunity
Weapons UsedMuzzle Loading Rifle(s)
Narrative'In the 1840s when the teamsters used to go through from Moreton Bay to Toowoomba, the blacks were very troublesome along the route, and English soldiers (from the 99th Regiment) were stationed near Helidon for the protection of travellers. Once when a party Aboriginals was giving trouble, the soldiers attacked them and drove them across to the creek at Tent Hill, and beside a big water-hole near Armstrong's Crossing shot them all and left them lying there' (Queensland Times 26/11/1927, p 13). 'The Crossing was at Blackfellows Creek and Blackfellows Gully so named because of the great quantity of bones found there' (Gardner, 1854, vol 2, p 124).
SourcesGardner, 1854, vol 2, p 124; Queensland Times, 26 November 1927, p 13 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/117271639. (Sources PDF)
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