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Alban Pearce interviewed about his experiences in 24th Battalion AIF during the First World War
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Maker: Pearce, Alban Unknown Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office Pearce, Alban
Discusses: early life; enlistment after height restrictions lowered in August 1917; prewar employment; sergeant in Cadets; family's attitude to enlistment; cooking detail at Alexandria; guard duties a...S02077
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Joseph Lewin Newman MM (1074) as a private 17th Infantry Battalion AIF and France 1916-1919
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Maker: Newman, Joseph Lewin
Newman speaks of his time on Gallipoli; punishments for being AWL; captured by the Germans in 1917 at Lagnicourt (near Bullecourt) and was a prisoner of war; escape to the Russian Frontier with two Ru...S01841