Neil Brian Davis as a cameraman / correspondent for Visnews Ltd, Vietnam and Cambodia 1964-1975, interviewed by Tim Bowden

Neil Brian Davis as a cameraman / correspondent for Visnews Ltd, Vietnam and Cambodia 1964-1975, interviewed by Tim Bowden

Davis speaks of his family background; rural upbringing in Nala and Sorrell, Tasmania; his horse riding skills; his siblings; memories of the Second World War; his schooling in Nala and Sorrell; his competitiveness; his sporting achievements as a professional footballer and runner; his early career in film making and photography with the Tasmanian Government Film Unit; the influence of his childhood experiences on his attitudes to death in later life; Adam Featherstone, a local identity in Sorrell; his fitness developed through an ongoing interest in competitive sport; joining Visnews Ltd in 1963; moving to Singapore in 1964; covering the confrontation with Indonesia in the Borneo states of Malaysia; working with Donald Wise, a correspondent for the London Daily Mirror [located at part 8 of 8]. Interview incudes a recording of Lieutenant Calley and the shooting down of ‘the man with a white flag’ in an incident at Hue, South Vietnam, 21 February 1968 [located at part 7 of 8].