[1] No specific records were kept but it appears that Kruger was taken from his family in mid-1928, alongside his sister Gladys, as a toddler and they were placed in the Kahlin Compound in Darwin.
[1] When, after a conversation, with Gordon Sweeney, patrol officer, Kruger discovered that he had not being paid, and had little chance of being so despite the Bloomfield's being obliged to, he ran away and enlisted in the army.
[4] Following the war, he reconnected with his family and spent two years living with them in Katherine; during this time his mother reprimanded him for joining the army, calling them "murderers and cowards".
[1] In the early 1950s he held a number of roles on cattle stations including Wave Hill, Wernaginga, Creswell Downs and Alcoota.
Kruger also accepted other work and travelled significantly including throughout Queensland, in the 1950s he attempted to reenlist in the army but was turned away because he was unable to provide any proof of identity or age, He felt humiliated by this.
[7] In the wake of this decision the Stolen Generation Association was established in Alice Springs and Kruger was a part of the management committee.