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Bill talks about landing in New Guinea and the Kokoda Track. This came about because he had been speaking at Rostrevor College to a group of students who were about the walk the track in the footsteps of Bill and his Australian Army colleagues in the Second World War.  

Seventy one years ago, Easter 1941, Bill Corey was part of the Autralian and British troops trapped in Tobruk, North Africa. One of the "rats of Tobruk surrounded by Rommel's Afrika Korps Bill recalls Good Friday 1941 and the conditions under which they lived for seven months.  

In his 96th year Bill has many Christmases to remember but here he shares his memoroes of childhood Christmases in Tarlee, South Australia during the 1920's. Christmas in the Army was different - he had 2 Christmases in Palestine, one in New Guinea and one in Borneo.