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Interview with Phyllis Wong (When the war came to Australia).
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Phyllis Wong whose husband was Chinese Consul General during the war years. Discusses her coming to Australia, her social activities, her fund raising activities, impressions of Robert ...F04023
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Interview with Queenie Shepherd (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Queenie Shepherd (When the war came to Australia)F04113
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Interview with Ralph Doig (When the war came to Australia).
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
In 1940 Ralph Doig was the Private Secretary to the Premier of Western Australia. He joined the Citizen's Military Force and became a platoon commander. After six months' service he had to return to t...F04060
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Interview with Ray Adams (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Ray Adams enlisted for the army but was not needed so he joined the Voluntary Defence Corps (VDC). The VDC was started by the veterans of the First World War. Each town had their own branch. Those who...F04084
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Interview with Ray Blisset (When the war came to Australia).
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Ray Blisset was a Detective Constable stationed at Glebe at the outbreak of the war. He describes the blackmarket in tinned fish, butter, etc. Wharfies did a lot of blackmarketing, with many crimin...F04055
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Interview with Ren De Garis (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Film Productions Pty Ltd Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with 39467 Sergeant Renfrey Curgenven De Garis. Mr De Garis talks about a Dad's Army which was created in Millicent after the war broke out. It was intended for people waiting to be called u...F04104
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Interview with Rick Pisaturo (When the war came to Australia).
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Pisaturo was an Italian soldier during World War 2 who served in Libya. He describes conditions for the Italian troops in the desert: very bad. He was taken prisoner in Benghazi and ended up sailin...F04043
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Interview with Robert Squires (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Robert Squires worked for Pool Petroleum during the war. He was based in Townsville where they were fuelling hundreds of vehicles and ships from 1943-1945. He comments on the National Day of Prayer, c...F04063
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Interview with Roger Jones and still (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Roger Jones and still (When the war came to Australia)F04124
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Interview with Roma Wallis and stills. Interview with Pasquale Matera and stills. (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Wallis was a teenager during the war and describes air raid drills, dances, the war effort work undertaken by the Voluntary Aid Detachments, the National Aid Detachments concerts, glee clubs. She ...F04081
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Interview with Rosemary McCourt (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Rosemary McCourt (When the war came to Australia)F04119
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Interview with Rowan Waddy (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Rowan Waddy who became a member of Z Special Unit. Discusses the reasons why it was set up, what it was supposed to do, how he joined up, training on Fraser Island in Queensland, censor...F04022
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Interview with Roy Hall (When the war came to Australia).
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Roy Hall who joined the Admiralty Yachtsmans Scheme - a scheme which recruited yachtsmen in Australia for small craft duties with the Royal Navy. He discusses how he became involved in ...F04017
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Interview with Roy Parker (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Ray Parker who came to Australia as a member of the 22nd Bombardment Group USAAF in June 1943. Discusses his first impressions of Australia, how they spent their rest and recreation lea...F04021
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Interview with Russell Braddon (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Braddon joined the army after completing his degree. He comments on the 'Ratty Diggers' - men who signed up for the Second World War after surviving the First World War. He remarks that the army re...F04155
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Interview with Sally Bowen (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Sally Bowen (When the war came to Australia)F04156
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Interview with Sandy Rayward (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Sandy Rayward who left Australia on the first convoy for the Middle East on 10 January 1940 on the Orford. Discusses his enlistment, the effects of the depression and hard times on the ...F04020
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Interview with Shirley Fenton Huie and stills. (When the war came to Australia).
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Interview with Shirley Fenton Huie and stills. (When war came to Australia).F04147
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Interview with Sir David Hay CBE, DSO, MBE (Mil) by Major Nick Welch: finished production (In retrospect: an oral history. Training for the complexities of war)
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Maker: Training Technology Centre Australian Army
The subject selected for this Oral history is Sir David Hay CBE, DSO, MBE (Mil) whose career spanned the full period of the Second World War. As such he is well qualified to comment on the subject of ...F04849
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Interview with Ted Hartley. (When the war came to Australia).
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Ted Hartley was a conscientious objector, and outlines his beliefs which prompted his stand as a conscientious objector. He felt conscription was illegal, including conscription for war work and ci...F04053