Recording by Neville Houghton about his adolescence in Brisbane during the Second World War.

Place	Oceania: Australia, Queensland, Brisbane
Accession Number	AWM2018.572.31
Collection type	Sound
Object type	Oral history
Physical description	audio cassette; Maxima LN90
Maker	Houghton, Neville
Place made	Australia: Victoria, Gisborne
Date made	3 September 2001
Access	Open
Conflict	Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright	Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright
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	This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.

Description

Recording by Neville Houghton about his adolescence in Brisbane during the Second World War. Neville answers questions supplied by Alison Viney Houghton for her "The Age of Innocence 1937-1947" oral history project, about young people living through the Second World War. Neville was 12 in 1939. The recording covers topics such as: his 'maiden aunts' from the First World War; the deportation of Chinese people and distrust of foreigners; Italians in Brisbane; protection of homes against bombing; church attendance; education in Queensland; rationing of clothing and butter; his family's poverty; inviting soldiers home; VJ Day; changes in retailing because window displays were boarded up; Red Cross volunteer activities such as making bandages; making papier mache bowls and camouflage nets; air raids and sirens; the Coral Sea Battle; child migrants, during and after the war; propaganda and censorship. A transcript of this recording is available. For further information please contact the Sound section.