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Discussing enlistment; army training; Middle East campaigns especially El Alamein; capture by German Army; description of journey by ship to Italy and torpedoing in prison ship; arrival in Brindisi; transfer to Udine; camp conditions; escape from Italy; repatriation. Recorded in Dunsborough (post code 6281), Western Australia near Busselton.
Part 1 of John William (Jack) Dodd, as a Private, 2/28th Battalion and POW in Italy, interviewed by Bill Bunbury for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Part 2 of John William (Jack) Dodd, as a Private, 2/28th Battalion and POW in Italy, interviewed by Bill Bunbury for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Part 3 of John William (Jack) Dodd, as a Private, 2/28th Battalion and POW in Italy, interviewed by Bill Bunbury for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Part 4 of John William (Jack) Dodd, as a Private, 2/28th Battalion and POW in Italy, interviewed by Bill Bunbury for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Discussing pre-war employment; enlistment in army; posting to Middle East as reinforcement for 2/28th Battalion; training in Palestine, battles at El Alamein; Battle at Ruin Ridge; capture by Germans;
Discussing enlistment; embarkation for Middle East; Tobruk; El Alamein Campaign; casualties; surrender to German Army; transfer to Italy and POW camp in Udine; transfer to Austria and Stalag 18A; othe
Discussing capture at El Alamein; hospitalisation in Tripoli; transfer to Grupignano Camp; camp conditions; escape; recapture by Germans; escape from Turin Camp; decision to join Italian partisans and
Discussing pre-war employment; enlistment in militia; transfer to AIF; army training at Northam Camp, WA; embarkation for Middle East; Middle East campaigns; battle for Ruin Ridge; capture by German a
Discusses 10th Light Horse; enlistment; pay and conditions; sport; employment; marriage; religion; politics; 2/28th Battalion; training; discipline; disorganisation; weapons; leisure; mateship; morale
Discussing enlistment in CMF and later AIF; 2/5th Field Regiment; conversion of 2/5th Field Regiment to 2/1st Anti-Tank Regiment; embarkation for England and deploying to Greece; capture by German for