Charles Robert Bowden as a lance corporal train driver 4th Australian Broad Gauge Railway Operating Division, France 1917-1918, interviewed by Dr Alistair Thomson

Place	Europe: France
Accession Number	S01306
Collection type	Sound
Measurement	2 hr 55 min
Object type	Oral history
Physical description	audio cassette; BASF LH extra I 90; mono
Maker	Bowden, Charles Robert Thomson, Alistair
Date made	2 July 1983
Access	Open
Conflict	First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright	Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright
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	AWM Research Grants Scheme

Description

Enlisted late 1916; driving trains in the Somme region France; working out of Dunkirk; moving goods including wine and beer; consuming wine and beer; relationship with French locals; prostitution and venereal disease; correspondence home; life after the war, including night school and clerical work by day.

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