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Aart Hopman as a Lieutenant Commander, Royal Netherlands Navy, 1939-1952, and Royal Australian Navy 1954-1977, interviewed by Ian Fulton

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Maker: Hopman, Aart Fulton, Ian Fulton, Ian
Aart Hopman was a submariner with the Royal Netherlands Navy and was based in Western Australia during the Second World War. He married an Australian girl and they later settled in Australia, where Aa...
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ABC Radio program "AM Saturday" report on commemorations held in South Korea to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the commencement of the Korean War.

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Maker: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
ABC Radio program "AM Saturday" report on commemorations held in South Korea to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the commencement of the Korean War. ABC reporter Sean Murphy travelled with the Officia...
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Able Seaman Frederick George Eustace as a Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship gunner, interviewed by Daniel Connell for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in The War of 1939-45.

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Maker: Eustace, Frederick George 'Fred' Connell, Daniel
Frederick George Eustace,as a Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship gunner, interviewed by Daniel Connell for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in The War of 1939-45.
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Abram Unicomb as a private, 41 Battalion, France, 1916-1919, interviewed by his son Ivan Unicomb

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Maker: Unicomb, Abram Unicomb, Ivan Unicomb, Ivan
Side A: discussion of unit, reinforcements for the Battalion; Battalion bugler and runner, when bugler called on to use bugle; description of shooting down of "Red Baron", Baron Manfred von Richthofen...
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Abram Unicomb as a private 41st Infantry Battalion AIF, France 1916-1918, interviewed by Ivan Unicomb

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Maker: Unicomb, Abram Unicomb, Ivan Unicomb, Ivan
Unicomb speaks of his shooting at Captain Baron Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron), near Corbie, France, 21 April 1918; aerial combat; the supply of rations and water to troops; some of the weapon...
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"Accounts of Anzac", C E W Bean, Turkish General Rustu Erdelhun, Mr H V Howe, Major E A Lloyd

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Maker: Bean, Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W) Erdelhun, Rustu Howe, H V Lloyd, Edward Acton Australian Broadcasting Commission
C E W Bean and Turkish General Rustu Erdelhun are interviewed about the Gallipoli Campaign for the ABC.
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A11060 Corporal Kevin Patrick Melican, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), 1951-1952, interviewed by Bill Bunbury, about his service with the RAAF during the Korean War.

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Maker: Melican, Kevin Patrick
Collection of oral history interviews on the Korean War recorded by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio National 'Hindsight' for the program 'Korea 1950-1953, The Forgotten War'. A tr...
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Actuality recording of conversations and radio traffic in a Command Post of 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR) in South Vietnam in August 1967 [actuality recording]

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Maker: Coleridge, Michael
TAPE 1, SIDE 1: Radio chatter, initial contact being described at command post. Commanding Officer (CO) talking to patrol leader about following up contact. Helicopters landing, moving overhead. Tape ...
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Actuality recording of radio traffic during a contact, 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR) in South Vietnam, c1969-1970.

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Maker: Unknown
Actuality recording of radio traffic during a contact, 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR) in South Vietnam.
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Ada Corbitt (Mickey) Syer as a captain, Australian Army Nursing Service and a prisoner of the Japanese, 1941-1945, interviewed by Margaret Evans

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Maker: Syer, Ada Corbitt Evans, Margaret
2/10th Australian General Hospital, was one of four reinforcement nurses when she embarked in 1941; went as the nation and fighting soldiers needed them, no familial reason not to go, and it was a way...
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Adam Exelby as a lance corporal, Explosives Dog Detection Handler, 1 Combat Engineer Regiment, Afghanistan, 2006-2007, interviewed by Andrew Gray.

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Maker: Exelby, Adam Gray, Andrew Australian War Memorial Black, Wade
A transcript of this recording may be available. For further information please contact the Sound section.
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Adam Rankin, as Captain, Air Defence Artillery US Army, 1997-2007, interviewed by Aaron Pegram

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Maker: Johnson, Richard Pegram, Aaron Rankin, Adam
Adam Rankin, as Captain, Air Defence Artillery US Army, 1997-2007, interviewed by Aaron Pegram. Captain Rankin served with the USA army in Korea and Iraq. This interview covers his experiences as an O...
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A11 Dassault Mystere (Falcon 20) passenger aircraft - operational sounds

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Maker: Defence Public Relations (DPR) Townsend, Ron
Take off Engine start up and taxi away Take off
S04715
Ada Therese Grace 'Tress' Kenny interviewed by Alison Viney Houghton about her experiences as a young person growing up in SA during the Second World War.

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Maker: Kenny, Ada Therese Grace 'Tress'
Ada Therese Grace 'Tress' Kenny interviewed by Alison Viney Houghton for her "The Age of Innocence 1937-1947" oral history project. The interview contains subjects related to her experiences as a youn...
AWM2018.572.38
(3050A) Davies, John Hayden (Private)

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Maker: Davies, John Hayden Rubinstein, Peter
John Hayden Davies, as a member of the 44th Battalion AIF, 1917-1918, interviewed by Peter Rubinstein for "Voices From The Great War". A transcript of this recording may be available. For further inf...
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Address at a memorial service by Lieutenant Colonel Leon Roderic Greville as Commanding Officer 4th Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment/New Zealand (ANZAC), South Vietnam 1968-1969

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Maker: Greville, Leon Roderic Ross-Smith, Ernest
Greville pays homage to comrades of 4RAR/NZ (ANZAC) who died whilst on tour and wishes well to those who where wounded and returned home.
S03658
Address at the commemoration of the Cowra breakout, presented by Graham Apthorpe as Development Officer, Cowra Shire Council, August 2004

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Maker: Apthorpe, Graham John Colhoun, Ernest Terence
Address at the commemoration of the Cowra breakout, presented by Graham Apthorpe as Development Officer, Cowra Shire Council, August 2004
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Address at the opening of the Harold Holt swimming pool, Vung Tau South Vietnam, by John Armstrong as co-Chairman Sportsmens' Appeal

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Maker: Armstrong, John Hinds, Allan Sydney Ford Hinds, Alan Sydney
The Harold Holt swimming pool, Vung Tau, was built by 17th Construction Squadron, funded by the Sportsmens' Appeal with donations from the Sportsmen of Australia and supported by Harold Holt, Prime Mi...
S03629
Address at the unveiling of the Desert Mounted Corps Memorial Anzac Parade Canberra, presented by the Right Honorable John Grey Gorton MP, Prime Minister of Australia 1968-1971

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Maker: Australian Capital Territory Electricity Authority
Other speakers include Mr Nixon, The Right Honorable J R Marshall MP Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand and Colonel Kent Hughes.
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Address by Lieutenant Colonel David Matheson Butler as Commanding Officer 6th Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment/New Zealand (ANZAC), South Vietnam 1969-1970 at the Long Tan memorial service, August 1969

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Maker: Butler, David Matheson Ross-Smith, Ernest
The Long Tan memorial service was conducted in the rubber north west of Xa Long Tan in the Phuoc Tuy Province of South Vietnam. It commemorated the third anniversary of the battle there on 18 August ...
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