Bill Corey - Fighting the weather and the Japanese in New Guinea

Bill was at Rostrevor College last week talking to a group of students who were about the go to New Guinea to walk the Kakoda Track. Bill decided to tell them about the rain that falls up there and recounted a story from World War Two when he was fighting the...

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Margaret Crowe - My First Job

In this story Margaret recalls her first job which was becoming a Wren as it was wartime.

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The Kokoda Track - landing in New Guinea

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.  

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Stan's Journey - Working in Germany during the War

Alice continues her story from last week about her husband Stan and his experiences in Germany during WWII.

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My Marriage

Alice talks about her marriage to Stan, a Polish migrant, and the story he told her when he saw a Deutz 1938 tractor in the Edililie Museum. He remembers how a tractor like this saved his life during the final years of World War Two.

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