Accession Number | S05027 |
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Collection type | Sound |
Object type | Oral history |
Physical description | digital audio file |
Maker |
Wade, John James Joseph James, Karl Australian War Memorial Preston, Lenny |
Date made | 22 October 2010 |
Access | Open |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial This item is licensed under CC BY-NC |
Copying Provisions | Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any commercial use and/or reproduction. |
Source credit to | AWM Oral History Program |
John James Joseph Wade, as a Corporal, 2/28 Battalion, Middle East, 1941-1942, interviewed by Dr Karl James
Description
JJ Wade discussed his enlistement; service in Tobruk; food rations; moving from Tobruk to Syria; leave in Cairo; daily routine with an "ack-ack" platoon in Tobruk; propaganda leaflet drops in Tobruk; the Tobruk front-line; photography; El Alamein; snow in Syria; returning to Western Australia and going on leave; Lae and Finschhafen; relationship with Officers.
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