Jagar

Billy Jagar (* 1870, † 1930), also known as King of the Barron, was an Aboriginal Elder of the tribe of Yirrganydji. He has thus become particularly well known that he was the only two plates King ( King plates). King plates forgave the English in the time of the colonization of Australia for the first time in 1815 by Governor Lachlan Macquarie of New South Wales to leaders within the tribes of Aborigines highlight to divide tribes into groups and to have contact to enforce their colonial policy. The first badge was Jagar by the colonial government in Queensland in 1898 when he was also appointed as the King of Barron and the second he received from the then Protector of Aborigines in the days of the Empire on May 24, 1906.

As Jagar died in a camp of the Aborigines in 1930, disappeared the two plaques. During the Second World War, stationed in the Fiji soldier Sergeant Douglas Cuprak received the plaque from 1898, which he hung in his home in North Dakota after the war. His daughters Margaret and Laura were investigating the origin of the King plate. When they found out where she came from, she gave them the Reconciliation Day in May 2005, back in Cairns at Jagars great-granddaughter Jeanette Singleton.

In 2007, a grave stone for Jagar was erected on the Martyn Street Cemetery, and over 100 people came to the cemetery, where his great-granddaughter, Jeannette Singleton, said: ". It's important to have a physical recognition like that for future generations" (It is important to have a physical memento for future generations ). At the memorial service, the King plate had been laid down at the tomb. The Jagars family is still looking for the second badge.