William Edward 'Billy' Sing  William Edward 'Billy' Sing  IN
GALLIPOLI, Billy Sing was known as the "assassin", with 150
confirmed kills and claims of twice that number with his Lee-
Enfield rifle.  He was a decorated war hero who died in a
Brisbane boarding house at the age of 57, still suffering from
the wounds he suffered in the Dardanelles and on the Western
Front.  During the Iraq war, an Australian sniper team in
Baghdad named their post the Billy Sing Bar & Grill in tribute
to their forerunner.  Yet it's possible Sing was only allowed to
enlist in Queensland's 5th Light Horse because he knew the
recruitment officer. Australians of Asian descent were not
considered fit for service at a time of strong anti-Asian
sentiment in the country.  Sing was born to a Chinese father and
an English mother and grew up on the land, honing his shooting
skills as a stockman. "He could shoot the tail off a baby pig at
25 paces," said George Fry in 2005. Mr Fry's father had married
Sing's sister.  Racial restriction was qu