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Douglas Noel Green as a private 106th Casualty Clearing Station (CCS), South West Pacific Area 1941-1945, interviewed by Kevin Dickson
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Maker: Green, Douglas Noel Dickson, Kevin Alexander
Discusses prewar family, education, employment, economic depression; enlistment; training; Casualty Clearing Station (CCS); 9th Division; SS Duntroon; convoys; casualties; stress; jungle operations; d...S01774
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Effie May Fussell (nee Garden) as a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) 1914-18, and Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD), 1939-45, interviewed by Jan Bassett
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Maker: Fussell (nee Garden), Effie May
Early life; nursing training in Bendigo; joining army; voyage to Egypt; conditions at Heliopolis in Egypt; types of wounds suffered by the Australian troops; moving with the 1st Australian General Hos...S01815
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Iris Grace Hutton as a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), the Royal Australian Army Nursing Service (RAANS) and the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC), 1942-1970, interviewed by Jan Bassett
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Maker: Hutton, Iris Grace Bassett, Jan
Early life; enlisted in April 1942 and discharged November 1970; sent to Aitape in New Guinea; suitability of uniform in tropics; describes conditions in hospital; in 1952 posted to Malaya as part of ...S01812
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Janet Lucas as a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), 1940-1946, interviewed by Jan Bassett
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Maker: Lucas, Janet Bassett, Jan
Early life; commenced civilian nursing training at Sydney Hospital in 1926; registered for army reserve in 1939; called up in 1940; posted to 2/5th Australian General Hospital (AGH); camp hospital at ...S01823
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Lorraine Stewart Blow as a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), 1940-1948, interviewed by Jan Bassett
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Maker: Bassett, Jan Blow, Lorraine Stewart
Early life; commenced civilian nursing training in 1926 at Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney; travelled to India and nursed there; returned to Australia in 1939 and enlisted in the army; called up in 1...S01825
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Nell Williamson as a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), 1940-44, interviewed by Jan Bassett
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Maker: Williamson, Nell Bassett, Jan
Enlisted 1940, discharged 1944. Early life; civilian nursing training at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney; registered in the army reserve; ran private hospital at Tullamore NSW then in 1937 went t...S01819
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Noel Anthony Carey as a corporal 2/3rd Independent Company later 2/3rd Australian Commando Squadron, South West Pacific Area 1942-1945, interviewed by Kevin Dickson
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Maker: Carey, Noel Anthony Dickson, Kevin Alexander
Discusses prewar education, family, employment, economic depression; Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) enlistment; militia (chokos); 9 Field Regiment, Sydney University Regiment; artillery 18 pounders...S01772
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Three 'Turn of the Century' ABC Radio Programs featuring Dr Peter Stanley discussing aspects of Australia's military involvement in war and peacekeeping throughout the 1900s
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Maker: Stanley, Peter Evans, Tritia ABC Radio
PROGRAM 1: Dr Stanley discuses attitudes to war and Australia's committment to war; Australian's went to the Boer War (South Africa) with idea that war was romantic and adventurous but during the cent...S02107
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Valentine George Gardner as a lieutenant, 2/14th Battalion, New Guinea, 1940-1943, interviewed by Andrew Jack
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Maker: Gardner, Valentine George Jack, Andrew
TAPE 1: Early life; joined 7 Militia Battalion in 1936 aged sixteen; training in the militia; in 1940 promoted to corporal and became instructor of new recruits into the AIF; transferred from militia ...S01735