Francis (Frank) Herbertson, Captain 2/2nd Machine Gun Battalion, interviewed by Edward Stokes for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45

Places	Africa: North Africa, Western Desert, Western Desert (Egypt), El Alamein Area, El Alamein Middle East Middle East: British Mandate of Palestine, Palestine Middle East: British Mandate of Palestine, Palestine, Khassa Oceania: Australia, Queensland, Ipswich, Redbank Oceania: Australia, Queensland, North Queensland, Atherton Tableland, Kairi Oceania: New Guinea1, Huon Peninsula, Finschhafen, Finschhafen area Oceania: New Guinea1, Huon Peninsula, Fortification Point Sio Area, Sio Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Lae
Accession Number	S00588
Collection type	Sound
Measurement	2 hr 16 min
Object type	Oral history
Physical description	audio cassette; TDK D60; mono
Maker	Herbertson, Francis (Frank)
Date made	May 1989
Access	Open
Conflict	Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright	Item copyright: Status to be assessed
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

Discussing pre-war employment; Anzac tradition; enlistment; training at Redbank, Qld; Vickers machine gun; embarkation on the Aquitania for Middle East; arrival in Palestine at Khassa Camp; reputation of Australian troops as "20,000 thieves"; action at Trig 33; the cutting and El Alamein; withdrawal from Middle East and return to Kairi Camp, Qld; adaption to tropical climate and jungle warfare for machine gunners; New Guinea campaigns especially invasion of Red Beach at Lae; Finschhafen; Sio; returning to Australia; post-war employment.

History / Summary

Discussing pre-war employment; Anzac tradition; enlistment; training at Redbank, Qld; Vickers machine gun; embarkation on the Aquitania for Middle East; arrival in Palestine at Khassa Camp; reputation of Australian troops as "20,000 thieves"; action at Trig 33; the cutting and El Alamein; withdrawal from Middle East and return to Kairi Camp, Qld; adaption to tropical climate and jungle warfare for machine gunners; New Guinea campaigns especially invasion of Red Beach at Lae; Finschhafen; Sio; returning to Australia; post-war employment.

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