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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 Kilcoy, Queensland; New Guinea campaigns; action at Buna and Sanananda; Battle of Shaggy Ridge; casualties in battalion; demobilisation; post-war health and Department of Veterans Affairs.
Part 1 of Geoffrey Charles James Lowe, Sergeant 2/12th Battalion, interviewed by Michael Sprod for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.
Part 2 of Geoffrey Charles James Lowe, Sergeant 2/12th Battalion, interviewed by Michael Sprod for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.
Part 3 of Geoffrey Charles James Lowe, Sergeant 2/12th Battalion, interviewed by Michael Sprod for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.
Part 4 of Geoffrey Charles James Lowe, Sergeant 2/12th Battalion, interviewed by Michael Sprod for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.
Part 5 of Geoffrey Charles James Lowe, Sergeant 2/12th Battalion, 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 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
Discussing enlistment in militia; joining AIF; army training at Brighton Camp; formation of 2/12th Battalion; camp leisure activities; promotions; embarkation for Middle East; arrival at Tewfik; Tobru
Discusses army training; formation of 2/12th Battalion; composition of battalion; leisure; Tobruk campaign; casualties; New Guinea campaigns.
Discussing pre-war employment; call-up for 55th Battalion; army training at Greta Camp; tensions between AIF and Militia recruits; embarkation for Port Moresby; description of bombing of the Macdhui;
Discussing pre-war employment; enlistment; embarkation for Middle East; Khassa Camp; Palestine; Vickers medium machine gun; Qastina Camp; ammunition; campaign at Trig Point 33; return to Australia; tr