Billy Sing was a soldier of Chinese descent who made a name for himself while serving in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. He stacked up about 150 confirmed kills during his campaign, and may have had 200 in total. In fact, one estimate puts his tally close to 300 kills.
Not surprisingly he was nicknamed The Assassin and The Murderer. Sing was the son of a Chinese father (a driver) and an English mother (a nurse). He was born and raised in Clermont, Queensland, Australia. In the early 1900’s, Australia was home to a considerable anti-Chinese sentiment.
As a young man, Billy was known far and wide for his shooting skills, but he was himself the target of racial prejudice. On October 24 1914, two months after the outbreak of the First World War, he enlisted as a Trooper in the Australian 5th Light Horse Regiment. He was rejected several times, and only began his military career when a recruitment officer chose to disregard his Chinese half.