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Michael Frawley and Margaret Lloyd-Jones interviewed by Alex and Annette Hood in the Alex Hood folklore collection [sound recording]
Bib ID 3570006
Format AudioAudio [sound recording]
Author
Frawley, Michael
 
Access Conditions Access open for research, personal copies and public use. 
Description 2005 
1 digital audio tape (ca. 62 min.) 
Series

Alex Hood folklore collection

Summary

Folkloric recording. Michael Frawley, born 1915, in Drayton, Qld., speaks about his family background; schooling; the Depression years; his work history before being accepted at Teacher's College in Brisbane; wages; school appointments; meeting future wife, Betty; joining the Army Medial Corps and posted to Thursday Island, 2nd Water Transport Unit; 'Miss Tussey Expectorant'; death of father; writing poetry and his poems; sent to Melbourne with his unit, 14th Small Ships; then went to 11th Small Ships; going to Darwin and Snake Bay on Melville Island; Lachlan and Archie Nicholson; Z Force; Sanderkan story; Bathurst Island. Hood asks about song, 'The Wreck of the Dandenong'; his father, singing with friends; the family singing at Michael's 90th birthday party; tells story about the journey back at war's end; Midge Point and Tom O'Flynn; Angus Nicholson; his life after the war; returned to teaching in 1946; retirement; farming; pension.

Partial contents
  • Michael Frawley tells of song by spy on the hill (Port Way Hill)
  • remembers song 'Oh T.I.' Alex Hood asks about song, 'The Wreck of the Dandenong'. Frawley and Margaret Lloyd-Jones talk about songs they sang, Irish and Scottish: Mother Macree
  • Mountains of Morn
  • Phil the fluter's ball
  • spoons. Hood talks about 'Mountains of Morn'
  • Frawley sings part of same
  • song about Killarney and Sydney Harbour (fragment)
  • Wreck of the Dandenong
  • Wreck of the Dandenong (repeat)
  • Wreck of the Dandenong (another verse)
 
Biography/History

Michael was born in Drayton, near Toowoomba in 1915. He became a school teacher, taking school appointments from 1936 to 1961 when he retired from Rangeville School in Toowoomba. He taught in many schools through North Queensland, from Cairns to Toowoomba. His teaching was broken by his enlistment in the army during the 2nd World War between 1940 and 1945, when he served in the small ships unit.

Notes

Recorded on July 8, 2005 at Drayton, Qld.

Digital master; National Library of Australia, Oral History collection;

Index/Finding Aid Note Timed summary (3 p.) 
Subjects Frawley, Michael. - Interviews.  |  Lloyd-Jones, Margaret. - Interviews.  |  Teachers - Queensland - Interviews.  |  World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Australia.  |  Folk songs, English - Australia.
Other authors/contributors Lloyd-Jones, Margaret, Interviewee  |  Hood, Alex, 1935-, Interviewer  |  Hood, Annette, 1948-, Interviewer

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    ORAL TRC 5533/1
    Copy: Recording
    Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)
    ORAL TRC 5533/1 (summary)
    Copy: Summary
    Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)

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