Robert Gaylor as a guard No 13 prisoner of war camp Murchison, Victoria 1941-1947, interviewed by Leonie Plunkett

Accession Number	S02665
Collection type	Sound
Measurement	44 min
Object type	Oral history
Physical description	audio cassette; BASF Ferro Extra I 90; mono
Maker	Plunkett, Leonie Plunkett, Leonie
Place made	Australia: Victoria, Murchison
Date made	8 August 1999
Access	Open
Conflict	Second World War, 1939-1945
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.

Description

Gaylor speaks of his army service and employment at Camp 13 an internment camp in Australia where German, Italian and Japanese prisoners of war (pow) were detained from June 1941 to January 1947; the operation of the camp - its defences, organisation and response to escapes; the internees' dispersal in to farm work; the relationship between some of the prisoners and the officers and guards responsible for their welfare, discipline and security; an alleged mutiny at the camp in 1942; the integration of Italian prisoners in to the local farming community after 1943; the arrival of the Japanese prisoners of war from Cowra in 1944; community support for the camp; the repatriation of the prisoners once the war had ended; a reunion of German ex-pow and their former captors at Murchison in 1974; his view of the Murchison community's memory of Camp 13 now that 50 years have elapsed since its demolition.
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