| Site Name | Glengyle station, Channel Country This massacre is part of a group of massacres |
| Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Place Name | |
| Language Group, Nation or People | Pitta Pitta |
| Present State/Territory | QLD |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | QLD |
| Police District | Bedourie |
| Latitude | -24.777 |
| Longitude | 139.133 |
| Date | Between 1 Apr 1879 and 30 Apr 1879 |
| Attack Time | Day |
| Victims | Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 40 |
| Victims Killed Notes | Men, women and children - 'a large camp'. |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Native Police, Stockmen/Drover(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Snider(s) |
| Narrative | Following the Annandale station massacre of 5 March 1879, 'Sub-inspector Kaye afterwards patrolled up the Herbert to Glengyle, where he dispersed a large camp of niggers as punishment for the murder of a stockman named Scott, about a month previously.' (Queenslander, 1879, p 668). |
| Sources | Queenslander, The, 24 May 1879, p 668 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19780897; Bottoms, 2013, pp 71-72. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | ** |
Colonial Frontier Massacres
in Australia, 1788-1930
