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Discussing pre-war employment; employer's encouragement to join the Militia; posting to Transport Company; relationship between Militia and AIF; training at Greta Camp; embarkation for New Guinea via Townsville; first impressions of Port Moresby; first Japanese air raid and first casualties at Seven Mile Strip; road-building activities; return to Australia and work as driver in Brisbane; driving jeeps in Bougainville; description of armaments carried in jeeps for protection; surrender of Japanese forces; demobilisation; post-war employment.
Part 1 of Norman Thomas James (Norm) Scowen, as a Private, Driver 55/53rd Battalion, interviewed by Daniel Connell for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Part 2 of Norman Thomas James (Norm) Scowen, as a Private, Driver 55/53rd Battalion, interviewed by Daniel Connell for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45
Part 3 of Norman Thomas James (Norm) Scowen, as a Private, Driver 55/53rd Battalion, interviewed by Daniel Connell for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45
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; army training at Dubbo, NSW; army training at Sellheim, Queensland; contact with American service personnel; leisure; censorship; status of militia units by 1942; reputa
Discussing enlistment in militia; pre-war employment; transfer to AIF in 1941; embarkation for Port Moresby on the Aquitania; Kokoda Campaigns and inadequacy of Australia's preparations; battalion cas
Discussing pre-war employment; enlistment and training; formation of 53rd Battalion; inadequacy of training period prior to embarkation for New Guinea; arrival in Port Moresby; inadequacy of supplies;
Discussing pre-war employment; enlistment if AIF; discipline in militia units; initial army training at Seymour Camp; transfer to Puckapunyal Camp; embarkation for Middle East; Deir Suneid Camp; Helwa
Discussing pre-war employment; formation of 53rd Battalion; AIF/Militia conflict; embarkation for New Guinea on the Aquitania; landing at Port Moresby; first raid on Port Moresby; lack of training and