| Accession Number | S04057 |
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| Collection type | Sound |
| Measurement | 2 hr 34 min |
| Object type | Oral history |
| Physical description | audio cassette; Scotch BX 90; two track mono |
| Maker |
Syer, Ada Corbitt Wall, Donald |
| Date made | 11 July 1918; 1 December 1989 |
| Access | Open |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
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| Copying Provisions | Copyright restrictions apply. Permission of copyright holder required for any use and/or reproduction. |
WX11105 / W102 Ada Corbitt (Mickey) Syer, as a Captain, Australian Army Nursing Service and prisoner of the Japanese, 1941-1945, interviewed by Don Wall
Description
Talks of escape from Singapore and bombing of ship Vyner Brooke, surviving in ocean and landing on beach at Banka Island, POW of Japanese; hears about the Bullwinkel party from British burial detail. [interview ends abruptly]
[final 11 minutes of this interview possibly continues on S04098]
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WX11105 / W102 Ada Corbitt (Mickey) Syer, as a Captain, Australian Army Nursing Service and prisoner of the Japanese, 1941-1945, interviewed by Don Wall
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WX11105 / W102 Ada Corbitt (Mickey) Syer, as a Captain, Australian Army Nursing Service and prisoner of the Japanese, 1941-1945, interviewed by Don Wall
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WX11105 / W102 Ada Corbitt (Mickey) Syer, as a Captain, Australian Army Nursing Service and prisoner of the Japanese, 1941-1945, interviewed by Don Wall