(VX3877) Dr Roy Roland Colyer Easdown MM recollects his experiences in the Australian army in North Africa, Greece, Crete and New Guinea during the Second World War

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Accession Number S01923
Collection type Sound
Measurement 10 hr 27 min
Object type Oral history
Physical description audio cassette; TDK AD100; mono
Maker Easdown, Roy Roland Colyer
Easdown, Roy Roland Colyer
Place made Australia: Western Australia, Perth, Karrinyup
Date made 1996
Access Open
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
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Description

Tape 1: Side 1: Declaration of war, training; to Aden. side 2: Aden, Ber Sar Lim, to Instructors' School. Tape 2: side 1: Ber Sar Lim to Athens, loading carriers. Side 2: loading carriers, to Corinth Canal. Tape 3: Corinth Canal to Port Said, stories of Greece. Tape 4: Yarns from Desert and Greece, to landing in Australia, camped at Seymour (Victoria). Tape 5: ANL (?) picket, Melbourne, to Lae. Tape 6: Lae to end of war.

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