Ronald Walker interviewed by Judy Wing in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2103934
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Walker, R. E. (Ronald Earle), 1900-, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1987 Oct. 27
- 2 sound cassettes (ca. 120 min.) : 1 7/8 ips.
- Series:
- NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
- Summary:
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Born in Paddington, Sydney, Walker speaks of his parents' background; death of father; living with his extended family; description of family home (rented) in Woollarah; boarders; family life; school memories; moving to Penshurst; education; Empire Day, WWI; working for the Lands Department as a draftsman; experiences completing a degree at Sydney University at night, studying and working at the same time; studying law; being transferred to Department of Labour and Industry, involvement with workers compensation; meeting wife; buying land and building a house in 1922; religion; courtship; recreation; marriage; wedding; wife's family; womens sufferage; WWI; conscription; flappers; White Australia Policy.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Recorded by the NSW Bicentennial Oral History Project, funded by a bicentennial grant to the NSW Council on the Ageing and the Oral History Association of Australia (NSW).
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-216300120
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and transcript available : 2 v. (32 p., 21 p.).
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This belongs to the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
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- Until 2057 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1987
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