Yarn Up participants
James McDermott
James McDermott discusses the service of his father Claude McDermott who was captured and held for 3 and a half years as a POW in Singapore during World War 2. James talks about the incredible pride he and his whole family have in Claude’s service for Australia.
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Jackie McDonald
Over two interviews, Jackie McDonald details her family’s history of service from World War 1 onwards.
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Mark McMillan
Mark McMillan is a Wiradjuri man from Trangie in NSW. Mark enlisted at the Royal Military College at Duntroon in 1988 but was discharged after only 18 months due to sustaining a serious knee injury. In his interview, Mark reflects on the differences between his and his brother’s experience in...
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Frank Mallard
Frank Mallard served in Borneo, Malaysia and Vietnam and stayed in the army for 23 years before then joining the Army Reserve and eventually serving in the UN/NATO force in Bosnia in the early 1990s.
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Claude Malone
Claude Malone served as a combat engineer in the Vietnam War. Based at Nui Dat, he worked with ordinance of all kinds including clearing landmines and defusing unexploded bombs and mortars.
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Mick Markham
Michael ‘Mick’ Markham discusses his service in the army during the Vietnam War. Mick served in Vietnam with 9RAR and made friends he still has today. But looking back he questions why we needed to go to Vietnam in the first place. Mick also discusses his family and background - his mother was...
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Glynis Marshall
Glynis Marshall and her husband Gordon discuss the service of John Marshall, Gordon’s father, in World War 2.
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Gordon Marshall
Gordon Marshall was involved in three interviews for the Serving Our Country project in and around Derby, Jarlmadangah and Mt Anderson Station.
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Des Mayo
Des Mayo talks about his army training and experiences serving in Malaysia as a National Serviceman before returning as a volunteer to fight in Vietnam. Des details the difficulties of serving in a jungle environment, and about his experiences of racism, friendship, combat, R&R and other...
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Anne Milgin
Anne Milgin talks about the area around Jarlmadangah, Nookanbah and Derby in the Kimberley during World War 2 - about what people, including her father, saw and remembered about the army from back then.
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