“Black Anzac” is a powerful mural series.

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that the following contains images of deceased persons.

Sydney street artist Hego has created a striking mural series featuring the images of Indigenous Anzac soldiers of World War I.

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The series started last year with one image on The Block in Redfern, portraying Alfred Cameron Jnr, of the 3rd Light Horse Regiment.

Hego told BuzzFeed News the initial inspiration came from the poem "Black Anzac" by Cecil Fisher, and after some further research, he got permission for his mural and chose Cameron as a subject.

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In March, Hego created another mural featuring Cameron along with other Indigenous soldiers, in the small South Australian town of Meningie. (Watch a timelapse of the installation here.)

"I always wanted to put Alfred ‘in country’, from the surrounding area where his tribe was from," Hego told BuzzFeed News. "I then thought it'd be a great opportunity to not only highlight Alfred Cameron Jnr's story, but also the many other stories of local Aboriginal soldiers I've since come across, of their service and sacrifice and discrimination... A local resident gave permission for me to paste up on her wall and I got permission from 18 different families [relatives of the soldiers depicted]."

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