Daintree, Charles Marshall (Lieutenant Colonel, b: 1907)

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Accession Number MSS1509
Collection type Manuscript
Measurement 1 item
Object type Manuscript
Maker Daintree, Charles Marshall
Date made 1993
Access Open
Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. AWM371 93/0540
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
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Description

'AIF Abroad': Some Recollections of My War Years 1939 to 1945' describes Daintree's life beginning with his early life, then going on to his schooling, pre-war career as a teacher and then as a trainee manager with Woolworths, his training and membership of 18 Battalion CMF and 25 Battalion CMF, his enlistment with the AIF and work with 2/13 Battalion, mainly in the Middle East, his wounding and rehabilitation, his work as Commanding Officer of NSW Lines of Communication Area Leave and Transit Depot, and his post-war career with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in Austria.