Indigenous soldiers war service remembered

Soldiers and Indigenous leaders have commemorated the formation of a WWII Arnhem Land army unit. (SUPPLIED) (AAP)

As the WWII conflict in Asia pushed south towards Australia, warring Indigenous clans in Arnhem Land unified to defend the nation from the Japanese.

The three groups of Yolngu warriors joined together using an ancient Makarrata ceremony in 1942 at Gurkawuy, 1000km east of Darwin in the Northern Territory.