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Courtney Harrison in his Australian Army uniform 1941

Courtney Harrison in his Australian Army uniform 1941

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Courtney Harrison in his Australian Army uniform 1941
Photo from the private collection of Trevor Harrison.

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From the private collection of Trevor Harrison

Courtney Harrison in his Australian Army uniform 1941.

Courtney Harrison talks about his experience of being captured by the Japanese during WW2 and being held as a Prisoner of War on the Indonesian island, north of Darwin in Ambon: Island of mist.

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Forgotten Heroes, Aborigines at War

Ambon, Island of Mist

Australian Women’s Land Army Interview

Malayan Harriers

Australian Army Nurses

Leo Maxwell Muir

Leo Maxwell Muir (centre)

Courtney Harrison as a young man

Courtney Harrison in his Australian Army uniform 1941

Courtney Harrison

Kit Brown in her Land Army uniform

Australian Women’s Land Army.

Elaine Peters in her Land Army uniform

Vi Malcolm in her Australian Women’s Land Army Uniform

Elaine Peters working flax for the Australian Women’s Land Army

Flax heaps at Riddells Creek

Land Army girls working the flax

Bob Moore

The Geelong Voices Oral History Project

Gallipoli

Roy Kyle photographed in uniform prior to departing for Gallipoli in WW1.