Accession Number | S01841 |
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Collection type | Sound |
Measurement | 1 hr 30 min |
Object type | Oral history |
Physical description | audio cassette; AKAI SX90; two track mono |
Maker |
Newman, Joseph Lewin |
Date made | 30 April 1979 |
Access | Open |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Status to be assessed |
Copying Provisions | Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any commercial use and/or reproduction. |
Joseph Lewin Newman MM (1074) as a private 17th Infantry Battalion AIF and France 1916-1919
Description
Newman speaks of his time on Gallipoli; punishments for being AWL; captured by the Germans in 1917 at Lagnicourt (near Bullecourt) and was a prisoner of war; escape to the Russian Frontier with two Russian prisoners after four weeks on the run in 1918; eventual arrival in England via Canada. Return to Australia at the end of the war.
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Joseph Lewin Newman MM (1074) as a private 17th Infantry Battalion AIF and France 1916-1919
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Joseph Lewin Newman MM (1074) as a private 17th Infantry Battalion AIF and France 1916-1919