(S/5619) Scrivener, Roy Elvine (Able Seaman)

Place Oceania: Pacific Islands, Coral Sea
Accession Number S00535
Collection type Sound
Measurement 3 hr 7 min
Object type Oral history
Physical description audio cassette; TDK AD60; unbranded C60; two track mono
Maker Roy Scrivener
Connell, Daniel
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Forestville
Date made 10 February 1989
Access Open
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Source credit to The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the war of 1939-45
Description

Roy Scrivener, HMAS Hobart, interviewed by Daniel Connell, for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45

Discusses HMAS Hobart; Australia; Royal Australian Navy (RAN); enlistment; Captain Howden; Battle of Coral Sea; American fleet; leisure; food; shipboard tension; torpedoing of HMAS Hobart; casualties.

History / Summary

Discusses HMAS Hobart; Australia; Royal Australian Navy (RAN); enlistment; Captain Howden; Battle of Coral Sea; American fleet; leisure; food; shipboard tension; torpedoing of HMAS Hobart; casualties.

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