The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 forces; first POW camp at Lubeck; transfer to camp at Biberach; camp conditions; transfer to Warburg Camp; escape plans; transfer to camp at Eichstatt; escape again and recapture; transfer to Colditz Camp; prisoner classification system; camp conditions; repatriation.
Part 1 of Alexander Douglas (Doug) Crawford, as a Captain, 2/1st Anti-Tank Regiment and POW in Germany, interviewed by David McRobbie for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archives of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Part 2 of Alexander Douglas (Doug) Crawford, as a Captain, 2/1st Anti-Tank Regiment and POW in Germany, interviewed by David McRobbie for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archives of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Part 3 of Alexander Douglas (Doug) Crawford, as a Captain, 2/1st Anti-Tank Regiment and POW in Germany, interviewed by David McRobbie for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archives of Australia in the War of 1939-45
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 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 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; t
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 enlistment; 2/11 Battalion; Libyan campaign; action on Crete; capture by Germans on Crete; German and allied doctors working together; food and conditions on Salonica, including fighting ove