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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;...

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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, ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Maker: McIvor, Percy Unknown Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office

Discusses: early life; prewar employment; enlistment February 1916; training; attitude to war; impressions of France; mud; awarded the Military Medal 1917; trench raid; wounded in arm; rescues drownin...

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Maker: Boyce, William 'Bill' Morrison, Jill Boyce, William 'Bill' Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office

Marriage and family; Bill Boyce discusses: early life; pre-war employment; enlistment; training; war on the Western Front compared to the desert; mateship; attitude to war; denied a soldier settlement...

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