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Australians at War Film Archive Lawrence Date Australians at War Film Archive Lawrence Date (Fingers) - Transcript of interview Date of interview: 11th March 2004 http://australiansatwarfilmarchive.unsw.edu.au/archive/1561 Tape 1 00:36 We will just start with the brief explanation. My name is Lawrence Edward Date. I was born 20th March 1930 at Allerton Private Hospital in Marrickville Road, Dulwich Hill. The place is still there but it is a community hostel place now. My parents lived in Woodland Street, Marrickville at the time which is the eastern entrance to Enson Park 01:00 rugby league ground in Marrickville now, but at that time it was a tip. They moved from there to live with Dad’s mother in England Avenue Marrickville because the day I was born he lost his job, it was in the Depression. We moved down to Australia Street, Camperdown and we were down there for a couple of years and on my brother’s second birthday on the 11th July 1934 we 01:30 moved down to Woolford Street, Corrimal and I had two more brothers born down there. We all went to Corrimal School and a week before the war started we moved from one side of the street to the other. Mum thought it was a good deal and so did I because I finished up with a room of my own, only a little room but it was mine and we stayed there until twelve months after the war finished and we had to move to Sydney because an 02:00 ex-serviceman had bought the house but it wasn’t big enough for us anyway. We moved to Sydney in Robert Street, Marrickville and my brother and sister still live there. My sister was born while we lived there and there is nearly twenty years difference between me and her and between me and her there is three brothers as well. I attended Corrimal School from 1935 until 1941 and 02:30 I left Corrimal School just as the Pacific war started. Then I started Wollongong Tech it was 15th February 1942 Singapore capitulated and the next day was my father’s birthday, his 38th birthday and he went to Changi prison war camp on that particular day. He was lucky he stayed there, he never went out of the place anywhere. I did three years at Wollongong Tech 03:00 and I left in the school year 1944, couldn’t get out of school quick enough. When I went to Corrimal School I liked it but when I went to Wollongong Tech, oh. I don’t know I was out of my environment I suppose you would call it now but I knew everybody in the school but when I went to Wollongong Tech there was only about five or six blokes I knew from Corrimal in the same classes that I had. 03:30 I never settled down. Let is go into that more later. I’d just like to have a brief? When we moved to Sydney I worked at various jobs and potential motor mechanic at the Holden dealer at Woolloomooloo and I had a job as a storeman. I was a dispensary porter at Prince Alfred Hospital for something like seventeen months, the only job I had before I joined the army that 04:00 I got holidays at. I was a truck driver, assistant mechanic, I just could never settle down, always looking for something better or something different. I joined the army in 1950, done my recruit training at Ingleburn, went to the Corps of Signals school in Victoria and then I went to Woomera as a truck driver in a line construction unit. Volunteered to go to Korea and 04:30 never thinking they would let us go but they did. Back to School of Signals done a conversion course, went to Japan thinking we were going straight to the battalion which we didn’t. There was eight of us in that group and I got sick almost as soon as I hit Japan. I got bronchitis and a minor surgical problem with haemorrhoids and I got 05:00 an ear infection and quite frankly I wasn’t worth 2/-d. But I didn’t think they would send me to Korea and I was dead set of frightened going over. I had no infantry training to speak of, just a couple of days here and a couple of days there and I went across to the signals platoon on the 1st platoon and it was like old home week because sixty percent of the platoon I had done in the Corps of Signals here in Australia and it made it very easy for me to settle in. 05:30 After six months with them I went to the 2nd Battalion and finished my twelve months while I was in the signals platoon in the 2nd Battalion and an uncle from my mother’s side of the family joined us. He had been a commando during the war, Jack and I got on all right and if you seen him in action with me he kind of slipped down a bit. What you expected or heard of what he 06:00 done during the war, never stands up to what you think and what you see are never the same. Finished my twelve months in the battalion and went back to my parent Corps in Signals in Kure. I used to have a run around the camp first thing in the morning, the only unit in Japan that used to do it and it was coming on winter and coming out of steam heated barracks we would stand around 06:30 in a pair of khaki drill trousers and a jumper and we would stand out there sometimes for fifteen and twenty minutes and coming out of a steam heated barracks well my bronchitis flared up. Trotting around the camp I was dragging the chain, the last man in the queue and got short of breath and puffing and panting and finished up in a swimming pool. Fortunately there was a bloke behind me and he pulled me out of the pool. They sent me to hospital and the next thing I know I’m 07:00 on a stretcher and come back to Australia. I was medically downgraded to Class 2, fit for sedentary duties only. From there they sent me down to the School of Sigs and I hated the idea of going down there and I didn’t know how long I was going to be there and I wanted to be an operator, keyboard operator and they didn’t know how long the course was going to be. I didn’t fancy spending six months 07:30 waiting for a course to start so I thought I would transfer to artillery and got knocked back. I was attached to an artillery unit and I spent twelve months here in Sydney and they sent me back down to Melbourne again as a driver, a driver, batman when the unit was going around putting in new signal centres, radio transmitter stations and receiver stations and things like that. I spent eighteen months with them on their paper and 08:00 the last six months I was in the Sigs unit and I done an operator’s course in the School of Sigs and qualified as an operator keyboard. And as a prize at the end of the whole course qualified top keyboard and they closed it down after Christmas and we all finished up working at the 1956 Olympic Games. I don’t know whether by good luck or good management I don’t know. I finished up at the 08:30 two main nights over at the swimming pool when the Australian men took all the prizes and the next night the Australian women took the prizes and nearly come to physical fisty cuffs [fight] with the American coach team. He was going crook, he said “All those Australian bastards are winning everything”. I said “Christ mate you can’t win them all, you are doing all right over at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, leave us some” and he got a bit cranky about it and I had been having a few beers with the sailors around the place too 09:00 and old Bertie Beresford he said “Away you go, you are doing all right”. One thing that gave me a lot of pleasure it was the first time an Australian soccer team had appeared in an Olympic Games and the captain of the team was a bloke that my father used to play cricket with before the war, Bobby Bignall. And he didn’t remember me but I remember him and when I told him who I was he said “I remember your Dad” and 09:30 I had a couple of beers with him too after the soccer game was on. After that was over come home on leave and went back to Melbourne and was working with the Tape Relay Centre and oh it was like working in a bloody dungeon. It was an old war time fibro hut and in the summer time it was like an oven and in the winter time it was like a freezer. And just being a bit chesty I started to get a bit crook and I wanted to get out of the place and 10:00 I volunteered to go back to Korea and they wouldn’t send me because I was Med Class 2 and they sent me back to Sydney for a medical board and they said “We will keep you in the army if you stop here in Sydney”.
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