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Our Wartime Heroes: firsthand stories from men and women who were there
By Sharon Kennedy, Jeffrey Peirce, Bunbury Oral History GroupHistory
Our Wartime Heroes: firsthand stories from men and women who were there episodes
- Henry George Buswell: first landings at Gallipoli
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Harry was among the first to land on Gallipoli in WWI, He was an acclaimed sniper and, also, in demand for his broad shoulders.
The Gallipoli campaign was the foundation of the ANZAC legend.
Listen to his letters home which detail the conditions on the peninsula.
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About Our Wartime Heroes: firsthand stories from men and women who were there
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From meeting Kitchener in the Boer War at the end of the 19thC, to clearing mines in Vietnam, this is wartime history recounted by those who were there.
These remarkable stories are told by…
the men and women from Bunbury Western Australia, in their own words and sometimes in their own voices.
Listen to little told stories of the nurses who tended the wounded and dying men in WWI.
Listen as Percy Goring talks of escaping a frozen death in a snowstorm on Gallipoli.
Hear about the time that HMAS Australia gave Churchill a lift.
You will cry, laugh and above all be in awe of the ability of ordinary men and women to face the extraordinary.