Don Anderson - Joining the navy

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Department of Veterans' Affairs

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Joined the navy at seventeen. 11 March 1942.

After about two weeks of training I was appointed to HMAS Castlemaine which now is a museum ship at Williamstown. It’s a ship that survived and was taken over by a very interested group.

They love me because the occasions I’ve gone down there, I’m the only survivor of the original crew.

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