Questions were raised in the Australian Federal Parliament in 1963, re what had occurred at a remote aboriginal community shortly after Queen Elizabeth visited the Flying Doctor Base in Alice Springs in March that year.

Some time later images that appeared to have been taken with modern circa 1963 photographic equipment, which were in a buff manila envelope and resembled official police photographs, were passed from hand to hand at Port Augusta High School.

The one I saw was of an aboriginal girl of about 8 yrs whose body was severed completely in two, from about her breast bone one side to her kidney region the other.

The Norther Territory politician who raised the matter on a number of occasions in the face of hostile criticism, is thought to have met his demise at the height of the controversy .. check Hansard.

At a game of football in Alice Springs in 1966 a middle aged aboriginal man approached the group I was with and told an identical story, that the Royal Party including the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh had carried out a massacre at his home community,

His story evoked memories of the photographs that had gone around at school three yrs before, and of the news reports re the questions in Parliament .. he wandered thru the crowd telling everyone the same tale.

A local bloke said he was on about the same thing all the time, that he repeated the same material to everyone with whom he came in contact, the local consensus was it was true but in the absence of an official inquiry what the Hell are you gonna do about it.

William Coombes allegedly witnessed Queen Elizabeth take ten young children from an aboriginal school in Kamloops, British Columbia who were never seen again, Mr Coombes was murdered in February 2011. Mass Graves of Mohawk Children Found.