Born in 1886 in rural Queensland, Sing was the son of a Chinese drover and farmer, whose father had in turn come to Australia from Shanghai, lured by gold. Sing’s mother was an Englishwoman born near ...

HE was Australia’s most feared WWI marksman — the Queensland-born son of an English mother and a Chinese father. Perhaps Sing included the scalp blown to him on a gust of wind that day in Gallipoli on ...

Billy Sing earned the nicknames "The Murderer" and "The Assassin" as a deadly sniper who shot more than 200 Ottoman troops during the Gallipoli campaign of World War I. He was also part-Chinese and ...