The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Jack Thomas Glew interviewed by Alistair Thomson about his service in Gallipoli, France and England 1915-1918. The interview includes discussion of Jack's enlistment in the Army (to escape from life at home helping his father in a timber yard); being a horse driver for the Australian Artillery in France and feeling fatalistic about his survival on the Western Front; army discipline and conditions; home coming and post war experiences.
William (Bill) Langham as a driver 8th Field Artillery Brigade AIF, France 1916-1918, interviewed by Dr Alistair Thomson. Amongst topics covered in the interview are reasons for enlistment, anecdote
Edward John McKenzie as a private 24th Infantry Battalion AIF, Gallipoli and France 1915-1918, interviewed by Dr Alistair Thomson
Reasons for enlisting; training camp; Cairo; reputation of Australian soldiers; Gallipoli; wounded and evacuated to England; self-inflicted wounds; relationship between officers and men; discipline; a
In an interview conducted at home by his grandson Douglas Chappell, John (Jack) Findley speaks of his experiences as a miner with the 4th Brigade on Gallipoli and as a linesman with the 39th Battery o
Percival J Fogarty, member of 22nd Infantry Battalion AIF, and later the 5th Pioneer Battalion, France 1916-1918, interviewed by Dr Alistair Thomson. Percy discusses early life growing up in a single
Pre-war life in and around Williamstown, Victoria being a member of the Boys Naval Brigade; enlistment in April 1916, and how his father passed away after he sailed for Egypt; Etaples Camp, France; jo