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  1. Air Vice Marshal Billie Hicks Collings AO AFC (Rtd) as a pilot No 77 Fighter Squadron RAAF, Korea 1953-1954, interviewed by Dr Chris Clark

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    Maker: Collings, Billie Hicks Clark, Christopher D Australian War Memorial Preston, Lenny

    Billie Collings talks about: his enlisting in the RAAF; flying training and his being posted to No.77 Squadron, Iwakuni, Japan.; the inadequacies of flying training at the time; Air Force attitude tow...

    S02783

  2. Charles C. Fisher relates his experiences as a private with 5th Battalion AIF during the First World War

    Sound

    Maker: Fisher, Charles C Unknown Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office Fisher, Charles C

    Charles Fisher discusses: early life; prewar employment; enlistment March 1916; training in Egypt; complete training at Etaples; wounded at Pozieres; battle at St Martin's Wood; reaction to Armistice;...

    S02043

  3. Corporal Ronald Kenneth Cashman MM, Royal Australian Infantry Corps, interviewed by Bill Bunbury in 1998 on his service during the Korean War, 1951-1953.

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    Maker: Cashman, Ronald Kenneth Bunbury, Bill Bunbury, Bill

    Recorded by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio National 'Hindsight' for the program 'Korea, 1950-1953, The Forgotten War'. Reasons for enlisting to go to Korea; knowledge of Korea a...

    S01905

  4. Desmond Henry Mulcahy, 2/19th Battalion, ex POW at Kobe, Japan, talks about his service in the Second World War and experience as a prisoner of war.

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    Maker: Mulcahy, Desmond Henry Mulcahy, Desmond Henry

    Desmond Henry Mulcahy, 2/19th Battalion, ex POW at Kobe, Japan, talks about his service in the Second World War and experience as a prisoner of war.

    S01729

  5. Driver Edward D. Eastham relates his experiences with the 3rd Division Artillery Column during the First World War

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    Maker: Eastham, Edward D Unknown Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office

    Edward Eastham discusses: early life; prewar employment; enlistment in December 1915; training at Codford Britain; impressions of France; mud; detonation of Messines mines in 1917; recalls the Somme, ...

    S02040

  6. Eric James Tremethick, 12 Recovery Section attached to 2/4th Army Field Workshop, Australian Army Services Corps, Prisoner of War (POW) on the Burma-Thai Railway, interviewed by Gillian Pearson about his service in the Second World War and experiences as a POW

    Sound

    Maker: Tremethick, Eric James Pearson, Gillian

    Eric James Tremethick, 12 Recovery Section attached to 2/4th Army Field Workshop, Australian Army Services Corps, Prisoner of War (POW) on the Burma-Thai Railway, interviewed by Gillian Pearson about ...

    S01732

  7. Gunner Albert Roy Kyle interviewed about his experiences in 6th Battalion AIF during the First World War

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    Maker: Kyle, Albert Roy Mills, Kerry Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office

    Discusses: early life; prewar employment; enlistment June 1915; parent's attitude to enlistment; training at Seymour; Gallipoli; wounded by artillery shell in France; boxing; theatre; return to Austra...

    S02052

  8. Jill Morrison reads an account of an interview she conducted with 743A Private George Ferrier about his experiences with the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion during the First World War

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    Maker: Ferrier, George Morrison, Jill Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office

    Jill Morrison reads an account of an interview she conducted with 743A Private George Ferrier about his experiences with the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion during the First World War Interview covered: ea...

    S02042

  9. John Robert Cunliffe (Jack) Cunliffe as WW1 veteran, 13th Battalion, 4th Brigade, interviewed by David Chalk.

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    Maker: Cunliffe, Jack Chalk, David

    Jack Cunliffe, SERN 359, interviewed by David Chalk about his experiences with D Platoon, 4th Brigade, 13th Battalion, in WW1. Topics discussed include: birthplace of Surry Hills (born at home on 3 Ma...

    S01175

  10. (Kenneth) Mervyn Hains as a private, 7th Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment, South Vietnam 1970-1971 [recorded letter]

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    Maker: Hains, Kenneth Mervyn Hains, Kenneth Mervyn

    Private Mervyn Hains records a letter for his sister, Helen and brother-in-law Russell, with comments for other members of his family also. He describes the some of his experiences in Vietnam; patroll...

    S00070

  11. Marconi official training signals (cat. no. B626) - course no. 1(9504) press (slow); course no. 1(9505) press (medium)

    Sound

    Maker: The Wireless Press Ltd The Gramophone Company Ltd

    Recordings such as this were used in wireless operators' training courses, Marconi Wireless Training School, Sydney, during the Second World War.

    S03088

  12. Marconi official training signals course no. 1 (catalogue number B625)

    Sound

    Maker: The Wireless Press Ltd The Gramophone Company Ltd

    Side 1: International morse (9502); Side 2: Practice in difficult letters, etc (9503). Recordings such as this were used in wireless operators' training courses, Marconi Wireless Training School, Syd...

    S02168

  13. Maxwell Roy Venables, Ammunition Sub Park, Prisoner of War (POW) on the Burma-Thai railway, interviewed by Gillian Pearson about his service in the Second World War and experiences as a POW

    Sound

    Maker: Venables, Maxwell Roy Pearson, Gillian

    Maxwell Roy Venables, Ammunition Sub Park, Prisoner of War (POW) on the Burma-Thai railway, interviewed by Gillian Pearson about his service in the Second World War and experiences as a POW A transcr...

    S01730

  14. Mildred Green as Doctor and Squadron Leader, interviewed by Joyce Thompson.

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    Maker: Green (nee Hutchings), Mildred Margaret Thomson, Joyce Aubrey

    Dr Mildred Margaret Green (nee Hutchings) [SERN 253230] as a squadron leader Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force, 1941-1945. She was the first woman to be appointed a medical officer in the RAAF, ...

    S00163

  15. NX71862 Leslie Gordon Gaffney interviewed by Caroline Gaden about his service with 8th Division Headquarters in Malaya and Singapore and his experiences as a prisoner of war of the Japanese, 1941-45

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    Maker: Gaffney, Leslie Gordon

    Reasons for enlisting; pre embarkation training; jungle training and operations in Malaya; reaction to the capitulation in Singapore; march to Changi prisoner of war camp; train journey to Bampong; ex...

    S01738

  16. Private George Cooper relates his experiences with the Gordon Highlanders during the First World War

    Sound

    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

  17. Private George Macumber discusses his experiences in 11th Machine Gun Company during the First World War interviewed by Kylie McKenzie

    Sound

    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

  18. Private James A. M. Jolly, 8th Battalion, interviewed about his experiences during the First World War

    Sound

    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

  19. Private James Kerr, 12th Battalion, interviewed about his experiences during the First World War

    Sound

    Maker: Kerr, James Unknown Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office

    Discusses: prewar employment; mother's attitude to enlistment; enlist AIF February 1915; training; became ill on troopship; repatriated to Australia July 1915; discharged December 1915; work during th...

    S02050

  20. Private John R. Wishart interviewed about his experiences in the 14th General Service Reinforcements during the First World War

    Sound

    Maker: Wishart, John R Unknown Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office

    Discusses: early life; enlistment in the AIF in May 1918; opinion of the war; training; family's reaction to enlistment; ship turned around in South Africa as the war ended; discharge February 1919; m...

    S02074

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