An emphasis on training: an interview with Major-General T.F. Cape, CB, CBE, DSO. (In retrospect)

Accession Number F04840
Collection type Film
Measurement 55 min 51 sec
Object type To be confirmed
Physical description Colour/U-matic high band/sound
Maker Training Technology Centre Australian Army
Place made Australia
Date made September 1992
Conflict Korea, 1950-1953
Second World War, 1939-1945
Period 1990-1999
Copyright

Item copyright: Commonwealth of Australia copyright

Description

In the video interview with Major General T.F. Cape, CB, CBE, DSO the emphasis is on training; prior to, during and post World War Two. The interview follows the path of his career upto and including his appointment as Commandant, OCS Portsea. graduated from the Royal Military College Duntroon in December 1937 to the Royal Australian Artillery. Between 1938 and 1940 he held regimental appointments with coastal defence units in Sydney and Port Moresby, where he helped to establish the 13th Heavy Battery. In 1941 he was posted as the founding Senior Instructor of the Anti-Tank Wing, School of Artillery, Puckapunyal. He saw active service in February 1942 when posted as the Brigade Major of Sparrow Force on Timor. Later he served as a Grade One Staff Officers (Air), in New Guinea and Morotai. After World War II, Cape held appointments as: an instructor at the British Army Staff College, Camberley, Commandant, Officer Cadet School, Portsea; and as Commandant, Staff College, Queenscliff. Cape retired from the Army in 1972 as Master General of the Ordnance.

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