Douglas Le-Fevre as a Private, 2/28th Battalion, interviewed by Brian Wall for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.

Places	Africa: North Africa, Libya, Cyrenaica, Tobruk Area, Tobruk Africa: North Africa, Western Desert, Western Desert (Egypt), El Alamein Area, El Alamein Africa: North Africa, Western Desert, Western Desert (Egypt), El Alamein Area, El Miteiriya Africa: North Africa, Western Desert, Western Desert (Egypt), Mersa Matruh Europe: Italy
Accession Number	S00517
Collection type	Sound
Object type	Oral history
Physical description	audio cassette; TDK AD60; two track mono
Date made	10 January 1989
Access	Open
Conflict	Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright	Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
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	The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the war of 1939-45

Description

Discusses 10th Light Horse; enlistment; pay and conditions; sport; employment; marriage; religion; politics; 2/28th Battalion; training; discipline; disorganisation; weapons; leisure; mateship; morale; siege of Tobruk; combat operations; attitudes to Germans; artillery; battle at Ruin Ridge; prisoner of war (POW); escape attempts; torpedoing of POW ship by British submarine HMS Turbulent; medical facilities; forced labour; attitudes to Italian civilians; Red Cross parcels; partisans; effects of war. Mentions Mersa Matruh, Tobruk, El Alamein, Homs Desert, Benghazi; Middle East; Modena, Brindisi, Bergamo, Udine, Italy; Switzerland.

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