Place | Europe: France |
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Accession Number | S00466 |
Collection type | Sound |
Measurement | 1 hr 14 min |
Object type | Oral history |
Physical description | 1/4 inch sound tape reel; Racal-Zonal; 7 1/2 ips/19 cm.s; two track mono |
Maker |
Chapman, Norman Frederick Butler, Bryan Australian War Memorial |
Date made | 22 November 1988 |
Access | Open |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial![]() |
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. |
Norman Frederick Chapman as lieutenant, 3rd Field Company, 1st Division AIF France, 1917-1918, interviewed by Brian Butler
Mr Chapman discusses: Childhood and Prewar employment as a surveyor, enlisting in 1916 and joining 3rd Field Company, 1st Division in May 1917, life on the ship on the way to England, training and being sent to France, going into action and involvement in reconnaissance near the Passchendaele, reaction to large number of casualties and men coming into contact with mustard gas, Hill 60; low temperatures during winter, going to the Somme, 1st Battalion saving Hazebrouck, Australians helping Americans near the Hindenberg Line, working long hours in the field during the day and then drawing plans at night under fire at times, reflections on the war, postwar employment, economic depression, interrogation of German Prisoner for information about 5 inch gun.
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