Marie Forestier interviewed by Terry Colhoun [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3971562
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Forestier, Marie, 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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- 1990
- 1 sound cassette (ca. 79 min.)
- Summary:
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Marie (Muff) Forestier, talks about her life; her natural skill as a dress designer; her childhood memories of World War I; arriving in Australia (1936); returning to England (1937); her experiences as an ambulance driver during World War II with the Red Cross; joining the British Navy working as Voluntary Aid Detachment; sailing to Australia (1944) with the navy; working in Sydney hospital nursing wounded men; returning to England, 1946; returning to Australia working as a dressmaker (1949); later working for the first Mobile Blood Transfusion Unit in Victoria.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on 19 January 1990 at Government House Cottage, Yarralumla, A.C.T.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-202071651
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (5 p.)
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Colhoun, Terry, 1924-, interviewer
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2060 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1990
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