Leslie Batchelor interviewed by Caroline Evans for the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 5808118
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Batchelor, Leslie, 1936-, interviewee
- Online Access:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2012
- 2 sound files (ca. 167 min.)
- Series:
- Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Online.
- Summary:
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Les Batchelor born at the Salvation Army Home, Launceston, provides details of his parents and family history; discovers half-brother through the Department of Community Welfare and has a close relationship with him; speaks of reason he became a ward of state, birth family and his religion; Mrs Mary Gamble from the nursing home; infectious Diseases Hospital; placed with foster mother; talks of life in foster care, affection and bonding with them and other children; his experience of being adopted, move to Goodwood by adoptive family; his numerous childhood illnesses; parents Christian Brethren, adoptive father sometimes used corporal punishment; Sunday school, speaks of his adolescence; becomes pastor in the Presbyterian Church; finds his birth mother but she does not introduce him to his wider birth family. He attended a number of primary schools and then the modern school and other high schools; begins work as junior clerk in Land Titles Office, then Genders Shipping Company and last the City Mission. Visits Campbell Street Gaol and Risdon Prison for the City Mission; becomes City Missioner.
In 1991 appointed staff chaplain for the International Trade and Industry Mission; leaves the City Mission becomes official visitor to Risdon Prison; concerns for some of the inmates, peer support programs, thinks his empathy with the prisoners comes from his childhood experiences; has been married twice, grandchildren. Talks of his faith, work as an industrial chaplain, invited to become a pastor by Presbyterian Church; obtains his file from Department of Community Services; Rudd, Apology to Forgotten Australians; Roy Grubb's Prison Report, Palmer Report; Royal Derwent Hospital children's wards; meticulously records family, work and public events in his diary and scrapbooks; concluding comment.
- Notes:
- Recorded on 7 February 2012 in Tas.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (5 p.)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Clergy
- Other authors/contributors:
- Evans, Caroline, 1950-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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