F4359 Bernard Edmonson as a stoker, Royal Australian Navy (RAN) corvettes HMAS Toowoomba and Fremantle, Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and North Pacific Ocean, 1942-1946, interviewed by John Roberts.

Edmonson speaks about his childhood and early education; being apprenticed to his father as a boot-maker; joining the RAN in 1942; training at Flinders Naval Depot as a stoker; joining HMAS Toowoomba in 1942; escorting convoys and carrying out anti-submarine patrols as part of the British Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf; refitting in Durban in early 1944 and joining other RAN corvettes in Colombo; returning to Fremantle for refit in December 1944; foreign service leave and family matters; rejoining Toowoomba at Manus and service in the Pacific, including Hong Kong; the end of the Second World War; transfer to HMAS Fremantle for return to Fremantle but the ship paying off in Melbourne; discharge and joining the family business; marriage and family; subsequent employment; being Controller of Parliament House Western Auatralia (WA); retirement and involvement with the Corvettes Association and the Naval Association in WA.

Part of a collection of nineteen oral history interviews conducted by the Royal Australian Navy Corvettes Association of Western Australia. Interviewers included John Roberts, Margaret Rickard, Lorna Dodd, William Gray Ritchie and Jack Shepheard.