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Bob Semple - World War II veteran (Oral history)

Bob Semple - World War II veteran (Video)

Bob Semple enlisted on 18 June 1940. He was proud to be one of the 'Rats of Tobruk' and also fought in the Battle of El Alamein. Later he would serve in the Brunei Bay area of Borneo.

Hautrie Crick - World War II veteran (Oral history)

Hautrie Crick - World War II veteran (Video)

Hautrie Crick enlisted in Melbourne on 6 August 1940. He was initially assigned to the 2/23rd Training Battalion and in October joined 2/24th Battalion.

Jack Caple - World War II veteran (Oral history)

Jack Caple - World War II veteran (Video)

Jack Caple enlisted on 22 June 1940 and served with the 2/24th Battalion in the Middle East, North Africa, New Guinea and Borneo.

Jim Price - World War II veteran (Oral history)

Jim Price - World War II veteran (Video)

Jim Price was working as a farm labourer when the Second World War broke out. As the war, escalated, he decided to enlist and raised his age by a year to do so.

John Fleming - Artillery patterns (Oral history)

John Fleming - Being strafed (Oral history)

John Fleming - Bully beef and biscuits (Oral history)

John Fleming - Casualties (Oral history)

John Fleming - Dust storms (Oral history)

John Fleming - Fatalism (Oral history)

John Fleming - Living in holes (Oral history)

John Fleming - Married on leave (Oral history)

John Fleming - Men overboard (Oral history)

John Fleming - Message runs (Oral history)

John Fleming - Stolen oranges (Oral history)

John Fleming - Stuka attack (Oral history)

John Fleming - Swimming at the beach (Oral history)

John Fleming - Wounded in action (Oral history)

John Pope - World War II veteran (Army) (Oral history)

Murray Willing - Arriving in Tobruk (Oral history)

Murray Willing - Battle of Milne Bay (Oral history)

Murray Willing - Burial party (Oral history)

Murray Willing - Homeward bound (Oral history)

Murray Willing - Keeping warm in Syria (Oral history)

Murray Willing - Leaving Tobruk (Oral history)

Murray Willing - On the Red Line (Oral history)

Murray Willing - Raising his age for enlistment (Oral history)

Murray Willing - Return to Australia (Oral history)

Murray Willing - Seasickness (Oral history)

Murray Willing - Shot by a sniper (Oral history)

Murray Willing - Six Japs (Oral history)

Murray Willing - Sports Day (Oral history)

Murray Willing - Stopping the Germans (Oral history)

Murray Willing - Strafed while being evacuated (Oral history)

Murray Willing - Zigzagging down (Oral history)

Sydney Kinsman - Captured and escape to Switzerland (Oral history)

Sydney Kinsman - Enlistment (Oral history)

Sydney Kinsman - Inward contentment (Oral history)

Sydney Kinsman - Lack of showers (Oral history)

Sydney Kinsman - Patrolling (Oral history)

Sydney Kinsman - Strafing attacks (Oral history)

Sydney Kinsman - The front line (Oral history)

Sydney Kinsman - War, war, war (Oral history)

Sydney Kinsman - Wounded in the front line (Oral history)

Tobruk: In Their Own Words (Educational), (Student activity)

Hear from Australian veterans about their experiences of the Siege of Tobruk during World War II.

Vernon Hansen - Berry the B & Gestapo Fred (Oral history)

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