The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Discusses entlistment; training; embarkation for Middle East via England; action at Tobruk; health; treatment of Italian prisoners of war (POWs); posted to Turkish border; good relationship with Turkish border guards; 2/12 Battalion sent home via Colombo; advance party reached Sumatra and subsequently made POWs.
Part 1 of Paul Hope, 2/12th Battalion and prisoner of war (POW), interviewed by Michael Sprod for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Part 2 of Paul Hope, 2/12th Battalion and prisoner of war (POW), interviewed by Michael Sprod for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Part 3 of Paul Hope, 2/12th Battalion and prisoner of war (POW), interviewed by Michael Sprod for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Part 4 of Paul Hope, 2/12th Battalion and prisoner of war (POW), interviewed by Michael Sprod for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Part 5 of Paul Hope, 2/12th Battalion and prisoner of war (POW), interviewed by Michael Sprod for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Captain Owen Alfred Curtis, (TX703) Discussing education; pre-war employment; enlistment; army training at Brighton Camp; using Vickers machine gun; relationships with officers; relationship with Quee
Discussing enlistment; work as medical officer in training camps at Brighton and Rutherford; voyage to England; training at Salisbury Plain Army Camp; embarkation for Middle East; regimental aid posts
Discussing pre-war employment; enlistment; training camp at Brighton; battalion composition; leave; embarkation for Middle East campaigns; Tobruk campaign; return to Australia; jungle training at Kilc
Discusses employment; enlistment; training; 2/28th Battalion; morale; leisure; casualties; capture, desert operations; health; POWs. Mentions Ceylon; Red Sea, Mersa Matruh; Tobruk, Palestine, El Alame
Discussing pre-war employment; reasons for enlistment in army; army training at Brighton Camp; duties as Sergeant at Headquarters of 2/12th Battalion; relationships between Tasmanians and Queenslander
Discusses childhood and early adulthood; religion; nationalism; enlistment; pacifism; Australia; army; militia; AIF / militia relations; 39th Battalion; embarkation for New Guinea; propaganda; looting