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Unicomb speaks of his shooting at Captain Baron Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron), near Corbie, France, 21 April 1918; aerial combat; the supply of rations and water to troops; some of the weapons and equipment being used at the time; the difficulty in finding one's way about in areas near the Front; his description of an artillery barrage; German prisoners of war; his experience of the battles at Hamel and Peronne; being wounded in the head and evacuated to England; repatriation, by ship, during which deaths from disease (meningitis and influenza) resulted in burials at sea; his arrival in Sydney and being quarantined; the post-First World War influenza epidemic.
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Part 1 of Abram Unicomb as a private 41st Infantry Battalion AIF, France 1916-1918, interviewed by Ivan Unicomb
Part 2 of Abram Unicomb as a private 41st Infantry Battalion AIF, France 1916-1918, interviewed by Ivan Unicomb
Side A: discussion of unit, reinforcements for the Battalion; Battalion bugler and runner, when bugler called on to use bugle; description of shooting down of "Red Baron", Baron Manfred von Richthofen
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Discusses: early life; prewar employment; enlistment in the AIF April 1917; mother's reaction to enlistment; memories of France; artillery attacks; opinion of the Germans; living conditions; trenches
Benjamin Kennett relates the shooting down of Red Baron; Richthofen's aircraft flew low over the position of the 43rd Infantry Battalion in heavy fog; a number of rifles fired first then machine guns
Wing fragments said to have been souvenired from the Fokker Dr.1 Triplane aircraft in which Baron Manfred Von Richthofen was shot down on 21 April 1918. The fragments are made from 2mm timber plank sa
Discusses early life in Tasmania; travelling to Egypt and camping at Heliopolis; difference between Australian and English soldiers and officers; fighting at Fromelles and having to retreat through fl