WWII

Towards the end of the war, the prisoners were marched from one German camp to another. Their guards were “children” and there was little food.

Visiting HMAS Sydney II. As a 13 year old Sea Scout, Neville was beyond excited to be allowed on board the Sydney when she visited Bunbury in 1941.

As a lad during WWII, Neville learned telegraphy. His skills came in use the night the sirens sounded over the town.

Kevin Keeley was too young to join up. He was a mechanic who learned first hand the pitfalls of gas conversations for cars.

Miraculously, the bullets went around George when his transport was strafed in Greece. His luck ran out later though and he was wounded.

Wounded, strafed, taken prisoner, George Baxter endured starvation and dreadful conditions. Then on April Fool's Day, came the sound of tanks approaching.

The voices and the stories of Bunbury men and women in a collection of heart rending and heartwarming stories.
A co-production of Sharon Kennedy and the Bunbury Oral History Group.
Additional material and research by military historian Jeffery Peirce.