Yarn Up participants
Major Lancelot Sumner
Major Lancelot Sumner talks about the contribution of Ngarrindjeri people to World War One, Vietnam and Korea, including his own family’s history of service.
» read moreGordon Syron
Gordon Syron spoke about the service of his uncles and brothers in many conflicts going back to World War I.
» read moreJames Tang Wei
James Tang Wei spoke to the project about his service in the Navy, with particular reference to the Vietnam War.
» read moreGloria Templar
Gloria Templar presents and discusses a quilt she has made that documents the service of many of her family members and other men from Cape Barren Island, from World War 1 through to the Vietnam conflict.
» read moreMalcolm Terare
Malcolm Terare speaks about his experience in the Navy in the 1970s. He discusses how much he enjoyed his time in the Navy, but also how racism was ever present and how he coped with this.
» read moreJonah Thingle
Jonah Thingle talks about his nine years in NORFORCE and emphasises the positives of his experience as being out on country and getting to share his knowledge of the land with soldiers from other places.
» read moreClinton Tipo
Clinton Tipo discusses his 15 years in the Navy. He describes his initial training at HMAS Cerberus, and his posting on a number of ships throughout the fleet. In particular, he discusses his time on the Navy’s Heavy Landing Craft, and deployments to Papua New Guinea, during which time he worked...
» read moreGeoffrey Togo
Geoffrey Togo discusses his ‘Aunty Sal’, Thelma Slockee, who was a nurse in the Australian Army.
» read moreChris Townson
Chris Townson gives a very detailed account of his long history of service in the Australian Defence Force. Chris speaks very positively of his time in the Army, and how he felt like he ‘found himself’ there as a young man at the age of 18. Over the course of his career he has worked in Malaysia...
» read moreNarelle Urquhart
Narelle Urquhart discusses the World War 2 service of her grandfather, Cecil Clayton, who was a ‘Rat of Tobruk’. She also discusses how her family was subject to separation, how children were taken away and ‘broken’, including many of her uncles.
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