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Accession Number | S00527 |
Collection type | Sound |
Measurement | 2 hr 5 min |
Object type | Oral history |
Physical description | audio cassette; TDK D60; mono |
Maker |
Hawkes, John Bowbear (Jack) |
Date made | 23 January 1989 |
Access | Open |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial This item is licensed under CC BY-NC |
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 |
Hawkes, John Bowbear (Jack), as a private, 2/28th Battalion and prisoner of war (POW) Italy, interviewed by Brian Wall for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Description
Discusses employment; enlistment; training; 2/28th Battalion; morale; leisure; casualties; capture, desert operations; health; POWs. Mentions Ceylon; Red Sea, Mersa Matruh; Tobruk, Palestine, El Alamein, Ruin Ridge, Middle East; Italy. Also describes at his recollection of being filmed by Damien Parer ; segment is part of a Movietone newsreel, "Tobruk for Valour".
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