Collected – Episode twelve
Christmas is a meant to be a time of joy and celebration. So how have Australian servicemen and women – and their families at home – coped during times of war? In Episode 12 of Colllected, Louise Maher discovers some heart-warming Christmas stories told through some of the Memorial’s more unusual items.
Credits:
Presented by: Louise Maher
Produced by: Louise Maher
Interviewed:
- Dianne Rutherford, Curator Military History and Technology
- Daniel Eisenberg, Curator Photographs, Film and Sound
- Jennifer Selby, Assistant Curator Photographs, Film and Sound
- Stephanie Boyle, Senior Curator Photographs, Film and Sound
Film:
Christmas Story, 1941 by Captain Frank Hurley
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/F01123
Sound items:
"My Hero" and "I'll See You Again" sung by Nancy Enid Allen
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/S03038/
Letter recorded on cassette by Private Bryan Lester O'Donnell in South Vietnam.
4717548 Private Bryan O'Donnell, 11 Platoon, D Company, 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR) in the battalion lines at the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base at Nui Dat.
Soldiers from 1st Australian Logistic Support Group join with young children from the nearby refugee village, Nam Binh, to sing Christmas carols at their base at Vung Tau, South Vietnam, 1967.
Recorded by Sergeant Wayne Grant.
Vietnam. 1967-10. Sergeant Wayne Grant of Burnie, Tas, and Australian Army Public Relations Team interviews Warrant Officer (WO) Class 2 Ron Seiler of Wagga Wagga, NSW, and the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) at Binh Ba outpost, six miles north of Nui Dat.
Original music: Andy Heaney, Vice Like Grip