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Interview with Barbara Doig (When the war came to Australia).
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Doig recounts her experiences of life in Perth during the war. She discusses the availability of chocolate, underwear, tinned food- all from the eastern states. Appliances eg refrigerators were bo...F04061
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Interview with Connie Fall (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Film Productions Pty Ltd Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Matron Connie Falls was the matron of a country hospital, and applied to be on the nursing reserve. She went into the 6th Division. She experienced some tragedies in nursing the wounded troops. She me...F04010
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Interview with Dorothy Hewett and stills (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Hewett was sixteen at the outbreak of war. She became a pacifist and clashed with her father who was an Anzac. She joined the Communist Party at the age of nineteen as a rebellious act. She commen...F04157
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Interview with Dulcie Cunningham (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Dulcie Cunningham lived in the town of Beaudesert outside of Brisbane during the war. There were a number of camps outside of the town including an American camp. Dulcie was a member of the Country Wo...F04015
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Interview with Edna MacDonald (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs MacDonald went to the Footscray Ammunition factory when the war broke out. She describes it as working long hours, tiring, dirty, boring, depressing, cold, unhealthy, night shifts but reasonable p...F04068
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Interview with Irmhild Beinssen (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Irma Beinssen who came to Australia in 1935. She married an Australian of German origin. She discusses her feelings on hearing of the outbreak of war, feelings towards Germans. Her husb...F04018
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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Interview with Pat Heher (When the war came to Australia).
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Pat Heher worked in Sydney at David Jones department store in the shoe section. The Ministry of Munitions took over the Market Street store, so the entire concern was crammed into the Elizabeth St...F04040
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Interview with Patsy Adam-Smith (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Adam-Smith became a Voluntary Aide working in hospitals in North Queensland for three years. The nursing consisted mostly of inoculations, malaria and worms were rife. Casualties were from New Gui...F04158
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Interview with Peggy Williams (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Peggy Williams. Discusses her role during the war, her joining the Australian Women's Land Army, her duties and experiences as a Land Army girl.F04012