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Members of D Company, 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion, Puckapunyal, 1940.
Original photo Des Martin, courtesy his son Desmond Martin.
DO YOU HAVE LETTERS, DIARIES, PHOTOS OR FAMILY REMINISCENCES THAT TELL THE PIONEER STORY?
About the Author
Dr James Mitchell is the son of Alan Mitchell, a Pioneer who saw action in Syria and Java and who was a POW on the Burma Railway.
Jim is an historian and author, formerly a lecturer in the history department of the University of Melbourne and a curator at the British Library in London.
Among several non-fiction books, Jim has edited his father's letters home as he served in the Pioneers - The moon seems upside down: letters of love and war (Allen & Unwin, 1988).
You can email Jim here.
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