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Discusses: early life; prewar employment; brothers enlist; parent's impression of war; enlist AIF May 1916; France; signalman duties; leave in Ireland; attitude to war; armistice; return to Australia 1919; postwar employment; marriage and family.
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Discusses: early life; prewar employment; enlistment February 1916; training; attitude to war; impressions of France; mud; awarded the Military Medal 1917; trench raid; wounded in arm; rescues drownin
Discusses: early life; brothers enlist; enlist AIF July 1915; impressions of war; gassed; injured in leg; at Casualty Clearing Station (CCS) when it was bombed; discharged in Britain and worked in a m
Discusses: prewar employment; parents attitude to enlsitment; enlist AIF February 1915; Gallipoli; collect sick and wounded at Gallipoli; Western Front; armistice; return to Australia 1919; return to
Discusses: early life; prewar employment; enlistment June 1915; parent's attitude to enlistment; training at Seymour; Gallipoli; wounded by artillery shell in France; boxing; theatre; return to Austra
Discusses: early life; prewar employment; enlistment June 1916; attitude to war; troop transport; stays at Sierra Leone; plays two up; training on machine guns; Passchendaele; mud; France; wounded by
Discusses: prewar employment; mother's attitude to enlistment; enlist AIF February 1915; training; became ill on troopship; repatriated to Australia July 1915; discharged December 1915; work during th