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Discussing pre-war entertainment career; enlistment and duties as nursing orderly; posting to 1st Australian Entertainment Unit and contact with Jim Davidson; reasons for entertaining front line troops; embarkation for New Guinea; description of members of the Troubadour Unit and their roles; difficulties of maintaining dual role of soldier and entertainer; show routines; costumes; climate and instruments; affect of father's First World War service on his family; health; female impersonators; post-war employment.
Discussing pre-war entertainment career; enlistment and duties as nursing orderly; posting to 1st Australian Entertainment Unit and contact with Jim Davidson; reasons for entertaining front line troops; embarkation for New Guinea; description of members of the Troubadour Unit and their roles; difficulties of maintaining dual role of soldier and entertainer; show routines; costumes; climate and instruments; affect of father's World War I service on his family; health; female impersonators; post-war employment.
Part 1 of Smoky Dawson, 1st Australian Entertainment Unit No 10 Detachment New Guinea, interviewed by Sharon Davis for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archives of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Part 2 of Smoky Dawson, 1st Australian Entertainment Unit No 10 Detachment New Guinea, interviewed by Sharon Davis for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archives of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Part 3 of Smoky Dawson, 1st Australian Entertainment Unit No 10 Detachment New Guinea, interviewed by Sharon Davis for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archives of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Part 4 of Smoky Dawson, 1st Australian Entertainment Unit No 10 Detachment New Guinea, interviewed by Sharon Davis for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archives of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Part 5 of Smoky Dawson, 1st Australian Entertainment Unit No 10 Detachment New Guinea, interviewed by Sharon Davis for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archives of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Discussing pre-war service with CMF; enlistment and service in Middle East during 1941; joining the Entertainment Unit; entertaining Australian troops in North Australia and islands; visit of Gracie F
Discussing pre-war ballet training; enlistment; dancing routines; show locations throughout Australia; audiences; performance conditions; costumes; post-war ballet career.
Discussing pre-war rectorship; reasons for enlistment; work in Middle East and New Guinea with 2/6th Cavalry Commando Regiment; role of chaplain; themes of sermons given in camps; administrative struc
Neville Gerard Clarkson Maddison, as a staff sergeant, entertainer, Australian Entertainment Unit, interviewed by Sharon Davis for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-1945.
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 Air Force; elementary flying training course at Archerfield, Queensland; training at Wagga, NSW on Wirraway planes; inexperience of instructors; embarkation for England; posti