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Leila Lowrie interviewed by Georgina Binns for her Project : Music of the Boer War and First World War
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Maker: Binns, Georgina Mary
Leila Lowrie interviewed by Georgina Binns at the Hobart Repatriation Hospital on 9 January 1986. Leila was 13 years old when the war started in 1914. Leila became a teacher at a Hobart high school an...S05748
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Len Millhouse interviewed by Georgina Binns for her Project : Music of the Boer War and First World War
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Maker: Binns, Georgina Mary
Len Millhouse, age 86, interviewed by Georgina Binns in Moonah, Hobart. Len volunteered for the Light Horse and then enlisted in the infantry and went to Glasgow where meningitis the black flu broke o...S05755
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Les Barnes interviewed by Alistair Thomson.
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Maker: Barnes, Les Thomson, Alistair
Les Barnes - not a returned serviceman of any war, but was interviewed re his recollections of politics and Brunswick RSL and Ex-servicemen. A transcript of this recording may be available. For furth...S04677
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Leslie George David (3308) as a corporal wireless operator Australian Flying Corps, United Kingdom 1917-1918, interviewed by Dr Alistair Thomson
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Maker: David, Leslie George Thomson, Alistair
Leslie George David as a corporal wireless operator Australian Flying Corps, United Kingdom 1917-1918, interviewed by Dr Alistair ThomsonS01309
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Leslie Rundle Brooks (Les), Royal Australian Navy 1915-1957, interviewed by Peter Rubinstein for "Voices From The Great War".
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Maker: Brooks, Leslie Rundle (Les) Rubinstein, Peter
Les Brooks, a member of the Royal Australian Navy, interviewed by Peter Rubinstein for "Voices From The Great War". A transcript of this recording may be available. For further information please con...S03427
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Leslie Webster Greenleaf, MM, as a private, 13th Battalion, discusses his part in the Gilgandra "Cooee March" in October 1915 in an interview with Kaye Mallison
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Maker: Greenleaf, Leslie Webster Mallison, Kay
Leslie Webster Greenleaf, MM, as a private, 13th Battalion, discusses his part in the Gilgandra "Cooee March" in October 1915 in an interview with Kaye Mallison.S00329
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Letter written by Francis (Frank) Wormald as Sergeant, First World War 1915 - 1919, to Morris Buie, read as a recording in 1989
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Maker: Wormald, Francis (Frank)
Francis (Frank) Wormald as Sergeant, First World War 1915 - 1919, wrote a letter to Morris Buie, and recorded a spoken reading of it in 1989, whilst at the age of 92. Sergeant Wormald enlisted in the ...S05822
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Lieutenant Colonel William Donovan Joynt VC, served with 8th Battalion, AIF, France during 1916-1918, interviewed by Roger Clarke
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Maker: Joynt, William Donovan Clarke, Roger
Lieutenant Colonel William Donovan Joynt VC, served with 8th Battalion, AIF, France during 1916-1918, interviewed by Roger Clarke at the RSL Veterans' Home in Frankston, VIC. A transcript of this rec...S04266
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Life on the Line podcast [Series 2, Bonus Episode] My Father's Great War with Bevan Harris
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Maker: Thistle Productions
Angus Hordern interviews Bevan Harris. Podcast released 29 June 2018. Episode description from www.lifeonthelinepodcast.com: Life on the Line tracks down Australian war veterans and records their sto...AWM2018.1150.16
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Life on the Line [Series 3, Bonus Episode] The Great War's Navy with Dr David Stevens
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Maker: Stevens, David Murray Hordern, Angus Thistle Productions Stevens, David
Angus Hordern speaks with Dr David Stevens about Australia's naval war in World War I. Podcast was released 12 April 2019. Episode descriptions from www.lifeonthelinepodcast.com: Life on the Line tra...AWM2020.1032.71
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Life on the Line [Series 1, Episode 7] Tom Hughes
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Maker: Thistle Productions
Alex Lloyd interviews Tom Hughes. Podcast released 10 October 2017. Episode description from www.lifeonthelinepodcast.com: Life on the Line tracks down Australian war veterans and records their stori...AWM2018.414.7
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Longmore, Roy
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Maker: Longmore, Roy Rubinstein, Peter Longmore, Roy
Roy Longmore, Sapper, 2nd Pioneers, interviewed by Peter Rubinstein for "Voices From The Great War". A transcript of this recording may be available. For further information please contact the Sound ...S03458
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Mance, Charlie
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Maker: Rubinstein, Peter
Charlie Mance interviewed by Peter Rubinstein for "Voices From The Great War". A transcript of this recording may be available. For further information please contact the Sound section.S03456
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Mansfield, Alfred (Alf)
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Maker: Mansfield, Alfred Rubinstein, Peter
Alf Mansfield interviewed by Peter Rubinstein for "Voices From The Great War". A transcript of this recording may be available. For further information please contact the Sound section.S03444
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March: All the trumpets
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Maker: Grisdale, Colin Hicks, Alan Latham, Chris
Recording of the instrumental piece titled 'March: all the trumpets', created as part of the Music and the First World War project. Music composed by H W Hamilton. Produced by Chris Latham, with Colin...AWM2018.404.50
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Mary Newman interviewed by Georgina Binns for her Project : Music of the Boer War and First World War
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Maker: Binns, Georgina Mary
Mary Newman interviewed by Georgina Binns at the Hobart Repatriation Hospital on 9 January 1986. Mary was only five years old when the war started in 1914. She discusses her experiences as her father ...S05749
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(180) Matthews, Albert Edward (Ted) (Corporal)
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Maker: Matthews, Albert Edward (Ted) Rubinstein, Peter Matthews, Albert Edward (Ted)
Ted Matthews, as a member of the 13th Infantry Brigade AIF, 1914-1918, interviewed by Peter Rubinstein for "Voices From The Great War". A transcript of this recording may be available. For further in...S03439
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Mayne, John (Jack)
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Maker: Rubinstein, Peter
Jack Mayne interviewed by Peter Rubinstein for "Voices From The Great War". A transcript of this recording may be available. For further information please contact the Sound section.S03450
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(5077) McGillivray, Angus John (Private)
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Maker: McGillivray, Angus John Thomson, Alistair
Angus John McGillivray as a private 52nd Infantry Battalion AIF, later 29th Infantry Battalion AIF, France 1917-1918, also 9 Division and Prisoner of the Japanese Second World War interviewed by Dr Al...S01319
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(224) McHugh, William George (Private)
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Maker: McHugh, William George
William George McHugh as a private, 40th Battalion, France, 1916-1919, interviewed by Bryan Butler.S00419
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Merriman, Ernest Clyde
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Maker: Merriman, Ernest Clyde Rubinstein, Peter
Ernest Clyde Merriman interviewed by Peter Rubinstein for "Voices From The Great War". A transcript of this recording may be available. For further information please contact the Sound section.S03462
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Mervyn Spencer interviewed by Georgina Binns for her Project : Music of the Boer War and First World War
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Maker: Spencer, Mervyn Henry Binns, Georgina Mary
Mervyn Spencer interviewed by Georgina Binns in Newtown, Hobart. A bandsman with the 12th Battalion band, he mentions receiving news of the sinking of the German Cruiser SMS Emden by HMAS Sydney. He a...S05753
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Message recorded by Second Lieutenant Henry Miller Lanser, 1st Battalion, Mena Camp, Cairo, Egypt, First World War for his family in Australia [recorded letter]
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Maker: Lanser, Henry Miller
This recording was made in Cairo by the Mechian Company. Armenian businessman Setrak Mechian ran a small record manufacturing business in Cairo from around 1908, where he produced hand-pressed shellac...S00104
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Molyneaux, G A (Second Mate, British Merchant Navy)
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Maker: Molyneux, G A Thomson, Alistair
G A Molyneaux as a second mate British Merchant Navy, 1915-1918, interviewed by Dr Alistair ThomsonS01321
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Mr Clarrie Wignall reciting poems, recorded by Mr Bryan Butler of AWM Sound Section
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Clarrie Wignall: Regimental Number 20 in the original 7th Battalion in WW1, wounded in 1918.S00437
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Mrs T P Chataway interviewed by David Chalk about her late husband's experiences with the 4th Brigade during the First World War
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Maker: Chataway, T P Chalk, David
Mrs T P Chataway interviewed by David Chalk about her late husband's experiences with the 4th Brigade during the First World War.S01174
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2nd Cook's Mate Richard F. Pavey talks about his experiences in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during the First World War and with the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC) during the Second World War
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Maker: Pavey, Richard F Unknown Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office
Discusses: early life; enlistment in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during the First World War; duties on ship; employemnt during the 1920's and 1930's; enlistment in the Army during the Second World...S02063
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Nicholas L Curtain (1684) as a sergeant, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, Middle East, 1914-1918 and later as a warrant officer 2 of the Volunteer Defence Corps, Tasmania, 1939-1945
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Maker: Curtain, Nicholas Leviston
Discusses bombing the horse lines and camp by the "Torbes" (Taube - German aircraft), Damascus, Lawrence of Arabia, Harper, riots in Cario, how the horses were destroyed after the war had finished, th...S00682
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Norman Frederick Chapman as lieutenant, 3rd Field Company, 1st Division AIF France, 1917-1918, interviewed by Brian Butler
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Maker: Chapman, Norman Frederick Butler, Bryan Australian War Memorial
Mr Chapman discusses: Childhood and Prewar employment as a surveyor, enlisting in 1916 and joining 3rd Field Company, 1st Division in May 1917, life on the ship on the way to England, training and bei...S00466
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Norman Montague Brooke DCM, as a private, 1st Pioneer Battalion and 2nd Medium Trench Mortar Battery, First World War, later of the 45th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, Russia, 1919 interviewed by Stuart Menzies
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Maker: Menzies, Stuart
Norman Brooke DCM of the 1st Pioneer Battalion and 2nd Medium Trench Mortar Battery, later of the 45th Battalion Royal Fusiliers. Arrived in England in April 1919 after being demobilised in France; jo...S00180
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Nurse, Fredrick Bickford (Private)
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Maker: Rubinstein, Peter
Fredrick Bickford Nurse as a private 8 Field Ambulance, 1914-1918, interviewed by Peter Rubinstein for "Voices From The Great War". A transcript of this recording may be available. For further inform...S03457
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Official Opening of Australian War Memorial, 11 November 1941
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Maker: Australian Broadcasting Commission
Official opening of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra on 11 November 1941.S00028
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Olive Jeffrey as a nursing sister 14th Australian General Hospital, Egypt 1917-1919, interviewed by Judith Doig
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Maker: Jeffrey, Olive Edith Doig, Judith
Techincal note : the interview is not formally introduced or concluded. Ambient noises on recording.S00398
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Oliver Howes, scriptwriter and editor, interviewed by Peter Rubinstein for "Voices From The Great War".
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Maker: Howes, Oliver F Rubinstein, Peter
Oliver Howes, scriptwriter and editor, interviewed by Peter Rubinstein for "Voices From The Great War". A transcript of this recording may be available. For further information please contact the Sou...S03430
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Otto Carl Nielsen as a member of 25th Infantry Battalion AIF, Gallipoli and France 1915-1918 [reminiscences]
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Maker: Nielsen, Otto Carl
Nielsen speaks of his enlistment in the AIF; training at Enoggera Camp, Albury; deployment for overseas service; further training in Egypt; departure for Gallipoli via Lemnos Island; experiences at Qu...S03783
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Percival Baxter relates his experiences as a gunner in the 3rd Field Artillery Brigade during the First World War
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Maker: Baxter, Percival Unknown Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office
Percival Baxter discusses: early life; pre-war work; prior military experience; enlistment; impressions of France; injured at front; attitude to war; return to Australia; post war employment; marriage...S02028
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Percival J Fogarty as a member of 22nd Infantry Battalion AIF, France 1916-1918, interviewed by Dr Alistair Thomson
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Maker: Fogarty, Percival
Percival J Fogarty, member of 22nd Infantry Battalion AIF, and later the 5th Pioneer Battalion, France 1916-1918, interviewed by Dr Alistair Thomson. Percy discusses early life growing up in a single ...S01313
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Percival (Percy) C. Nayler interviewed by Simon Townsend about his service in 57th Battalion during the First World War
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Maker: Nayler, Percival Cook Townsend, Simon Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office Nayler, Percival Cook
Discusses: early life; prewar employment; enlistment July 1915; family's attitude to his enlistment; sent to England and then France; impressions of France; participated sprint races at front; wounded...S02060
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Percy Atkinson Bird (5666) as a sergeant 5th Infantry Battalion AIF, Egypt and France 1915-1917, interviewed by Dr Alistair Thomson
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Maker: Bird, Percy Atkinson Thomson, Alistair
Pre-war life in and around Williamstown, Victoria being a member of the Boys Naval Brigade; enlistment in April 1916, and how his father passed away after he sailed for Egypt; Etaples Camp, France; jo...S01305
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Percy Chas Bland as a member of 4 Brigade, France, 1916-1918, interviewed by David Chalk
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Maker: Bland, Percy Charles Samuel Chalk, David Chalk, David
Percy Chas Bland as a member of 4 Brigade, France, 1916-1918, interviewed by David Chalk.S01169
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Phillip "Pop" Rubie as a Private, 17th Battalion, AIF, 1915-1918, interviewed by Kim Dixon
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Maker: Rubie, Phillip John Hessell Dixon, Kim Hogan, Donn
Private Rubie discusses: why he volunteered for the AIF; reasons others may have enlisted; trip to Cairo; Australian troops brawling in Cairo; being part of a picket of troops sent to clear troops out...S05432
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9pm Bugle Calls, Last Post and Reveille played by the Menin Gate Buglers. Recorded at the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium.
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Maker: Menin Gate Buglers Hunter, J F
9pm Bugle Calls, Last Post and Reveille, played by the Menin Gate Buglers. Recorded at the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium.S00265
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(6141) Pope, Howard Hilton (Lance Corporal)
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Maker: Pope, Howard Milton Rubinstein, Peter Pope, Howard Hilton
Howard Hilton Pope, as a member of 27th Battalion AIF, 1916-1919, interviewed by Peter Rubinstein for "Voices From The Great War". A transcript of this recording may be available. For further informa...S03453
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Private Clive McKenzie, 5th Battalion, interviewed about his experiences during the First World War
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Maker: McKenzie, Clive Unknown Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office
Discusses: early life; enlistment March 1916; family's reaction to enlistment; impressions of France; extreme cold; lack of rations in front line; Albert and meeting a civilian girl; wounded at Bullec...S02056
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Private George Cooper relates his experiences with the Gordon Highlanders during the First World War
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Maker: Cooper, George Unknown Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office
George Cooper discusses: prewar work; conscription; joins the Gordon Highlanders August 1917; expectations of war; family's reaction to his enlistment; training; escort at military funerals; elite dri...S02036
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Private George Macumber discusses his experiences in 11th Machine Gun Company during the First World War interviewed by Kylie McKenzie
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Maker: Macumber, George Unknown
Discusses: early life; prewar employment; enlistment June 1916; attitude to war; troop transport; stays at Sierra Leone; plays two up; training on machine guns; Passchendaele; mud; France; wounded by ...S02053
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Private Henry 'Harry' Riseborough discusses his service in the First World War, including Gallipoli, in an interview conducted for radio.
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Maker: Riseborough, Henry (Harry) Unknown
Begins with a medley of songs from the First World War. Interview with Henry Riseborough for Alice Springs radio in 1982, in which he talks about his experiences in Gallipoli and his overall service i...S04353
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(3406) Private Herbert William Wilson as a private, 33rd Battalion, France, 1917-1919, interviewed by Dr Timothy Bottoms
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Maker: Bottoms, Timothy D R
Reasons for enlistment in 1916 as an 18 year old; reaction of parents and friends A transcript of this recording may be available. For further information please contact the Sound section.S03731
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Private James A. M. Jolly, 8th Battalion, interviewed about his experiences during the First World War
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Maker: Jolly, James A M Unknown Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office
Discusses: prewar employment; mother's reaction to his enlistment; enlist AIF August 1916; training at Ballarat; winter in France; football and cricket matches behind the lines; being wounded near Hil...S02049
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Private James Edwin Moses (721) interviewed about his service in 40th Battalion AIF during the First World War
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Maker: Moses, James E Unknown Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office
Discusses: early life; prewar employment in mining; enlistment in AIF March 1916; family's attitude to enlistment; impressions of France; Le Harve; Rouen; wounded at Passchendaele; Armistice; returned...S02059