Anzac Day will see Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander veterans honoured at the Coloured Digger March and events in Sydney.

Ken 'Kira-Dhan' Zulumovski, an Aboriginal man who has served in the Royal Australian Artillery Corps part time for eight years while balancing a career in Aboriginal mental health, is the lead organiser of the Coloured Digger Project.

The Project is in its 17th year and will see a series of events held Tuesday, beginning with the screening of Black Anzac at the Redfern Community Centre at noon, followed by a Welcome Ceremony and then a march to the Redfern Park Cenotaph.

The Coloured Digger March and Coloured Digger Project take their names from a poem "The Coloured Digger" by Sapper Bert Beros, a non-Aboriginal soldier in World War Two written in honour of Private West, one of his Aboriginal comrades.

He came and joined the colours, when the War God's anvil rang,

He took up modern weapons to replace his boomerang,

He waited for no call-up, he didn't need a push,

He came in from the stations, and the townships of the bush.

He helped when help was wanting, just because he wasn't deaf;

He is right amongst the columns of the fighting A.I.F.

He is always there when wanted, with his Owen gun or Bren,

He is in the forward area, the place where men are men.

He proved he's still a warrior, in action not afraid,

He faced the blasting red-hot fire from mortar and grenade;

He didn't mind when food was low, or we were getting thin,

He didn't growl or worry then, he'd cheer us with his grin.

He'd heard us talk democracy, They preach it to his face

Yet knows that in our Federal House there's no one of his race.

He feels we push his kinsmen out, where cities do not reach,

And Parliament has yet to hear the Aborigine's maiden speech.

One day he'll leave the Army, then join the League he shall,

And he hope's we'll give a better deal to the Aboriginal

The project, which honours Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander veterans, needs ongoing community support and relies on the hard work of volunteers.

"I find it extremely encouraging that Australia, as a nation, is finally starting to open up and have the uncomfortable conversations about our true history," Mr Zulumovski said.

"With that comes a deeper understanding and appreciation for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who volunteered to leave their country and kin to go far way to a distant land and defend a system that did not value or recognise them. One that in fact brutally oppressed them. They fought for the freedom of all of us while their freedom and rights at home were largely unseen."