Yarn Up participants
Patricia Neal
Patricia Neal discusses the World War 1 service of her relative George Percy Wallace who was killed in action and is buried in Belgium. She also talks about her great uncle Gundi who served in World War 2 in Darwin. Gundi was treated poorly after his service, and as a result did not engage with...
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David Nean
David Nean discusses his service in Vietnam in 1967-68 with 7RAR. David was called up as a national serviceman, and decided to join despite having exemption as both an aboriginal man and a railway worker. He joined 7RAR and then moved to a self-propelled artillery unit. He remembered doing a...
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Samantha Nicholson
Samantha Nicholson comes from Cairns and has family connections to the Torres Strait. She talks about her experience after five months of training in Darwin for the defence forces.
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Alice Nona
Alice Nona comes from Cairns and has family connections to the Torres Strait. She talks about her experience after five months of training in Darwin for the defence forces.
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Len Ogilvie
Len Ogilvie joined the army in 1948 and served in Korea where he was badly wounded after only 5 weeks, however he thoroughly enjoyed his time in the army.
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Ashley Oobagoomba
Ashley Oobagoomba discusses his service in NORFORCE as a young man in the 1980s, the training he undertook and the exercises he was part of around Western Australia and the Northern Territory, including on his own lands. Ashley also explains some of his family history and current issues...
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Melita Orcher
Melita Orcher discusses the many members of her family who served in the Australian defence forces throughout the 20th Century.
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Iris Paulson
Iris Paulson and Colleen Hurley discussed their grandfather’s service with the Light Horse during World War 1. Private Frank Fisher enlisted in 1917, and served in the Middle East.
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Angela Pearce
Angela Pearce discusses the service of her great uncle Bert Nixon in the Korean War and his health issues afterwards.
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John Pearson
John Pearson, Clyde Rigney, Dorothy Shaw and Verna Koolmatrie discuss the Raukkan community’s long history of service in the defence forces from World War 1 onward.
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