Alfred Ernest (Alf) Miller as a sergeant, 2/4th Australian General Hospital, interviewed by Harry Martin for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.

Alfred Ernest (Alf) Miller as a sergeant, 2/4th Australian General Hospital, interviewed by Harry Martin for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45. Discussion includes early schooling; childhood understanding of the Great War; parents' divorce; anti-violence views; anti conscription; patriotism; pay; enlistment; training and living conditions in Puckapunyal; nature of professional relationships between officers and staff, and between male and female personnel; nature of work as a medical orderly; depature by sea on Mauretania to North Africa in 1941; conditions on board ship; beaching of the ship; walking to Bardia; fed italian food by Polish and treated by British; Italian booby traps; setting up the 4th General Field Hospital; problems with tented hospitals and advantage of moving into barracks; Pilastrino; German manoeveurs and allied retreat on Tobruk; rate of pay as a grade 3 medical orderly; limited water supplies during German attack; log range guns; caring for others when under fire; description and impact of dysentry on allied and enemy forces; 'miraculous' recovery by one young soldier from dysentry; post war life including being ordained.
Places mentioned: Abd El Kader; Cairo; Port Tewfik; Tobruk; Bardia; Barce (near Benghazi); Alexandria; Fort Pilastrino;