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  1. Alexander (Lewis) Johnston interviewed about his career in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) from 1919-1946

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    Maker: Johnston, Alexander 'Lewis' Unknown Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office

    Discusses: early life; employment; love of ships and desire to join the Navy; enlist in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) May 1919; sail to Darwin on HMAS Sydney; discharged August 1921; inter-war emplo...

    S02048

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    (2332) Freeman, Harold Arthur (Seaman) as a crew member of HMAS Sydney 1913-1916, interviewed by Elizabeth Burness

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    Maker: Freeman, Harold Arthur Burness, Elizabeth

    Harold Arthur Freeman, as a crew member of HMAS Sydney 1913-1916, interviewed by Elizabeth Burness.

    S00422

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    William Morgan Bridgeman as an able bodied seaman, HMAS Sydney, Royal Australian Navy (RAN), British Grand Fleet, North Atlantic Ocean 1915-1918, interviewed by Dr Alistair Thomson

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    Maker: Bridgeman, William Morgan Thomson, Alistair

    Bridgeman relates his early life on a farm near Castlemaine; school at Yapeen; joining the Navy in 1913; transfer from Garden Island to Papua New Guinea when war broke out; being on board HMAS Sydney ...

    S01307