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Interview with Jack Crawley (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Crawley, Jack Look Film Productions Pty Ltd Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Jack Crawley is shown wearing a gas mask and helmet while he gives the traditional Boy Scout salute. Mr Crawley was a school boy and member of the Boy Scouts during the war. He worked as a bicycle ...F04035
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Interview with Jack Pollard (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Jack Pollard was a cadet reporter with the Sydney Daily Telegraph. He enlisted as an eighteen year old and describes training and conditions for young soldiers (under 19 years). He describes the Ja...F04028
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Interview with Jean Scott (When the war came to Australia).
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Jean Scott was a member of the Australian Women's Land Army, (AWLA) which was formed to do the manual labour on farms, in place of the men who had gone to war. There were 6000 AWLA girls in the Co...F04036
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Interview with Jerry Judd (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Gerry Judd for the documentary series 'When the war came to Australia. Gerry Judd discusses his reactions to the outbreak of war, the enlistment of his father and brother in the AIF and...F04011
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Interview with Joan Benston (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Joan Benston (When the war came to Australia)F04122
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Interview with John Drennan (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr John Drennan was seven years old when the war broke out and describes his experiences while living near munitions plants and army camps in Adelaide. Mr Drennan remembers his school work which was ...F04099
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Interview with John Ellard (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with John Ellard (When the war came to Australia)F04151
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Interview with John Hinde (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Hinde was a journalist with the ABC at the beginning of the war. Frank Dixon was in charge of the news, Warren Denning was the second in charge. He discusses the night the Japanese submarine shelle...F04145
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Interview with John Slee and stills (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
At the outbreak of war, Mr Slee was an engineering student at Melbourne University. He left university, joined a Militia engineer unit and trained compulsory trainees. He discusses the policy of wirin...F04073
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Interview with Joy Boehm (When the war came to Australia).
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Boehm describes school-life- patriotic, the national anthem, etc. She was a secretary, signed up and joined the Women's Army Service. Her fiance was in Singapore in the Straits Volunteer forces, t...F04058
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Interview with Joy Boucher and stills (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Joy Boucher and stills (When the war came to Australia)F04098
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Interview with Joyce Batterham (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Joyce Batterham was a member of the Communist Party. She discusses her feelings about the outbreak of war, the banning of the Communist Party, her period in the textiles factories as an organiser, att...F04024
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Interview with June Stone (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Stone joined the Women's Auxilary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) in September 1941 aged 19, as her contribution to the war effort. She discusses her air force training in the "Rookies" course, from ...F04045
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Interview with Kathleen Lonergan (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Kathleen Lonergan was involved heavily in the Comforts Fund in Gulgong during the war. She was the President of the Comforts Funds and was involved in fundraising activities such as street stall...F04087
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Interview with Ken Cunningham (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Ken Cunningham, Chief Petty Officer in the Royal Australian Navy. Discusses the importance of Singapore to Australia and feelings at home after the fall of Singapore, his service in the...F04016
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Interview with Ken Haylings (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Ken Haylings was a school boy during the war and describes his experiences while living in Petersham, Sydney. He describes his mother receiving a telegram with birthday wishes, while neighbours rec...F04033
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Interview with Ken Muggleston (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Ken Muggleston (When the war came to Australia)F04161
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Interview with Ken Thompson (When the war came to Australia).
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Ken Thompson was a gunner with the Royal Australian Artillery, and served in Darwin during the war. He discusses the Darwin Infantry Battalion, formed in 1941 to guard the northern approaches and d...F04050
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Interview with Kevin Shepherd and stills (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Kevin Shepherd and stills (When the war came to Australia)F04114
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Interview with Laurie Aarons (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Laurie Aarons (When the war came to Australia)F04146
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Interview with Laurie Nairne and stills. Ray Adams pick-up (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Laurie Nairne was seventeen when war was declared in 1939. He enlisted in 1940 and joined the Light Horse . In 1941 he was transferred to the AIF Imperial Forces Unit, and was sent to Singapore. He...F04086
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Interview with Lesley Daniels (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Lesley Daniels (When the war came to Australia)F04128
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Interview with Lesley O'Donnell (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Lesley O'Donnell was a shop assistant at David Jones department store in Sydney during the war. She describes the range of merchandise available in shoes; how the rationing system worked; and the ...F04041
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Interview with Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Daly CB, DSO, by Major John Cantwell. Finished production. (In retrospect: an oral and visual history. Training for war)
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Maker: Training Technology Centre Australian Army
This history commences with an introduction by Major Cantwell who states the importance of military history as a tool for learning lessons for today's Army. This is followed by a summary of Lieutenant...F04850
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Interview with Lillian Harding and stills (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Lillian Harding and stills (When the war came to Australia)F04102
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Interview with Lillian Malcolm (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Malcolm reminisces about her young husband who was an airman, serving with the 'Suicide Squadron', Coastal Command in England. He was killed six months into his posting. She had to support herself...F04038
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Interview with Louisa Hughes (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Hughes, Lillian Look Film Productions Pty Ltd Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Louisa Hughes talks about her life at home while her son, Hilary, was away fighting. She had a sense of denial while he was away. Mrs Hughes also describes the relief she felt when the war was ov...F04077
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Interview with Major Arch Foxley MBE, By Major Neil Thompson. Finished production. (In retrospect: an oral and visual history. Training for and in war from a Special Air Service perspective)
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Maker: Training Technology Centre Australian Army
The video commences with an introduction by Major Thompson. This provides a brief overview of the Special Air Service Regiment, the theme and scope of the interview and closes with a brief resume of M...F04852
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Interview with Major General B.W. Howard AC, MC, by Major Ian Goss. Finished production. (In retrospect: an oral and visual history. Reflections of an Infantry Company Commander)
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Maker: Training Technology Centre Australian Army
Interview with Major General B.W. Howard AC, MC, by Major Ian Goss. Finished production. (In retrospect: an oral and visual history. Reflections of an Infantry Company Commander)F04853
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Interview with Major General David Butler AO, DSO, by Major Ian Cruickshank. Finished production. (In retrospect: an oral and visual history. Sub-unit training for war and in war)
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Maker: Training Technology Centre Australian Army
This oral history is part of a Training Command initiative to interview selected personnel and to draw on their operational experiences for training purposes. The Training Command emphasis is on train...F04851
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Interview with Major Henry Baynton Somer (Jo) Gullett AM, MC, by Major Randall McClelland. Finished production (In retrospect: an oral and visual history. Reflections of an Infantry Company Commander)
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Maker: Training Technology Centre Australian Army
Interview with Major Henry Baynton Somer (Jo) Gullett AM, MC, by Major Randall McClelland. Finished production (In retrospect: an oral and visual history. Reflections of an Infantry Company Commander)F04856
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Interview with Margaret Blair (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Margaret Blair discusses American servicemen in Australia and attitudes towards them, the resentment towards Australian women dating American servicemen and the proposal of marriage to her from Fred B...F04013
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Interview with Margaret Burton (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Margaret Burton (When the war came to Australia)F04105
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Interview with Margaret Holmes (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Margaret Holmes was active in the Pacifist movement in New South Wales prior to and during the war. She discusses her feelings on hearing the outbreak of war, Menzies call for volunteers, her assi...F04025
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Interview with Margaret Hopgood (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Margaret Hopgood (When the war came to Australia)F04129
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Interview with Margaret Maxwell and stills (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Margaret Maxwell and stills (When the war came to Australia)F04100
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Interview with Mary Comer and stills. Nola Bridges letters. (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mary Cromer had promised to marry her fiance before he went overseas. They had five days together before his posting in December 1941. Mary's wedding dress was important. Material for this type of occ...F04083
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Interview with Mary Holmes (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Mary Holmes was active as a worker with the National Emergency Service in the Sydney area during the war. She also began teaching at a private boy's school where previously only male teacher's had...F04026
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Interview with Mary Miller and stills (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Mary Miller and stills (When the war came to Australia)F04109
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Interview with Maurie Jones (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Fields was a boy of twelve when war broke out. He discusses the knowledge of war gained by the civilian population: the phoney war; knowledge of the Nazis from refugees; heard the Nuremburg rally o...F04062
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Interview with Meg Ewart (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Ewart joined the Army in 1941 and worked with the 2/10 Field Ambulance. She was posted to Darwin and was disappointed as she wanted to go to an active area. The 28 sisters travelled on the troop s...F04054
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Interview with Merle Edwards (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Merle Edwards (When the war came to Australia)F04111
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Interview with Merv Lilley (When the war came to Australia).
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Merv Lilley was a communist sympathiser prior to enlisting in the Armed Services. He was posted to the Home Defence force and was stationed in Torres Strait. He describes conditions there and also ...F04027
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Interview with Mr Dick Willcox
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Maker: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Interview with Mr Dick Willcox of Tarnagulla, Victoria. Mr Willcox a 94 year old 1914-1918 War veteran was interviewed by Ian Henschke for and ABC Television broadcast on Anzac Day 1990.F03547
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Interview with Mrs Doris Liffman (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Liffman left Austria in 1938 aged 18, when Austria was annexed by Germany. She went firstly to England and then to Australia. Her first impression of Australia was a positive one - Melbourne resem...F04074
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Interview with Mrytle Boddington and stills (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Boddington's husband worked for Gold Mines of Kalgoorlie, which supplied electricity to run mine engines. He was in a protected occupation. She describes Kalgoorlie during the period- wide streets...F04065
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Interview with Murray Fletcher (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Murray Fletcher (When the war came to Australia)F04106
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Interview with Nancy Keesing (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Keesing was a student doing the Intermediate Certificate at the outbreak of the war. As a Jew, she and her family became aware of the problems in Europe and her family over there migrated to Ameri...F04052
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Interview with Niall Brennan and stills (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Niall Brennan started at the Melbourne University in 1936. The student population divided themselves under loyal imperialists or Australia as an independant country. Pacificism and social justice were...F04072
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Interview with Nola Bridger and stills (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Bridger was a young woman during the war. Her brother served in Crete and Greece, and was wounded in Crete. The family was notified of his wounds by the Red Cross and the Army. He was away for thr...F04082