| Site Name | Annandale 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 | -25.448 |
| Longitude | 138.424 |
| Date | 5 Mar 1879 |
| Attack Time | Day |
| Victims | Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 27 |
| Victims Killed Notes | Men, women and children |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Government Official(s), Native Police |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Snider(s) |
| Narrative | Sub Inspectors William Kaye and William Gough, and a detachment of three native police 'dispersed' a 'large camp' of Pitta Pitta people near Annandale station. They were in search of the killer of a stockman at Murgah station. However the killer and others got away and fled across the border to South Australia (The Queenslander, 24 May, 1879). Settler William Paull (Nolan cited in Bottoms, 2013) from South Australia said that 27 Pitta Pitta were slaughtered and that the incident was first of two massacres of Pitta Pitta carried out by the native police. |
| Sources | The Queenslander, 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
