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Australian private served with 2/1st Bn Pioneer Bn, Australian Imperial Forces in Australia and North Africa, 1940-1945
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REEL 1 Background in Newcastle, Australia, 1917-1940: family; education; reasons for volunteering for army, 1940. Recollections of operations with 2/1st Pioneer Bn, Australian Imperial Forces in North Africa, 1940-1941: duties during Allied advances in North Africa, winter 1940-1941; retreat into Tobruk perimeter, 4/1941; food and water supplies in perimeter; evacuation of Australians by destroyer; attachment of his unit to 104th Regt, Royal Horse Artillery; question of strategic German mistakes during siege of Tobruk; evacuation by HMS Abdiel; method of infantry defence of Tobruk; physical state he was in after siege of Tobruk. Period as NCO with 2/1st Pioneer Bn, Australian Imperial Forces in Australia, 1942-1945: reasons for delay in rejoining unit after return to Australia, 8/1942; role as jungle training instructor at Kanungra, Queensland, 1945.
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