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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 at Tobruk; recovering wounded; treatment of wounded; voyage back to Australia; embarkation for New Guinea; treatment of tropical diseases; relations between officers and other ranks.
Part 1 of Dr Peter Braithwaite, Captain and Regimental Medical Officer 2/12th Battalion, interviewed by Michael Sprod for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Part 2 of Dr Peter Braithwaite, Captain and Regimental Medical Officer 2/12th Battalion, interviewed by Michael Sprod for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45
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
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
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
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; 2/12 Battalion; army training; embarkation; shipboard activities; fighting in Middle East; return to Australia; service in New Guinea; action at Milne Bay; attitudes to Japanese
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 Turki