Dorothy Warne interviewed by Alison Viney Houghton about her experiences as a young person living through the Second World War

Place	Oceania: Australia, South Australia, Port Lincoln
Accession Number	AWM2018.572.58
Collection type	Sound
Measurement	Duration: 1 hour, 1 minute, 14 seconds
Object type	Oral history
Physical description	audio cassette; TEAC CDX1
Maker	Warne, Dorothy Houghton, Alison Viney
Place made	Australia: South Australia, Coromandel Valley
Date made	2001-10-22
Access	Open
Conflict	Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright	Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright
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.
Source credit to	This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.

Description

Dorothy Warne interviewed by Alison Viney Houghton for her "The Age of Innocence 1937-1947" oral history project. The interview covers topics related to being a young person during the Second World War; such as: schooling in Port Lincoln, SA, working for "The Recorder" newspaper; working at the Government Produce Department; social activities like church groups, dances, bike riding, cinemas; Red Cross volunteering; rationing; the wartime experience of her husband WX4099 Private Rosslyn George Warne, 2/3 Machine Gun Battalion and POW (Changi, Burma-Thai Railway, coal mining in Japan); Red Cross parcels; difficulties faced by returned POWs and their families.