Bill talks about landing in New Guinea and the Kokoda Track. This came about because he had been speaking at Rostrevor College to a group of students who were about the walk the track in the footsteps of Bill and his Australian Army colleagues in the Second World War.
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Bill tells us about attending a rodeo at Jubilee Oval in Adelaide. Sir Sydney Kidman organised the rodeo for the people of South Australia to celebrate his birthday.
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Bill recalls his first job as a butcher - something that was a tradition in his family as his father and grandfather had been butchers before him....
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Bill talks about his parents. His father was born in 1882 in "The"Burra. His mother, born in 1882 of Scottish descent was raised by her Grandmother who arrived in Australia in 1837. He talks about the influence of his mother in his life.
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Bill describes the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York's visit to Adelaide in 1927 and how he and many other school children attended the Adelaide Oval to welcome them.
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Bill talks about the good times and the hard times over his life and reminds us that we are all sons and daughters of migrants.
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Bill attended a rural school for the first six years of his schooling and when he moved to Adelaide he attended Adelaide High School. In particular he remembers most of his teachers throughout his school years.
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Bill, born in 1917, shares his memories of Anzac Day over the years, and tells us what Anzac Day means to him.
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This week's topic was Sports and Hobbies and Bill shared his remembrances about sport in his life - football, swimming and, above all, sailing. This was the start of a 50 years sailing. Adelaide is a great place for sailing and Bill belonged to the South Australian Yacht Squadron.
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Bill Corey was one of the veterans chosen to return to El Alamein on the occasion of the 70th anniverary of the battle that hepled turned the tide of World War Two. Prior to Alamein the Germans had nover lost and they desperately wanted to get control of the Suez Canal....
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Seventy one years ago, Easter 1941, Bill Corey was part of the Autralian and British troops trapped in Tobruk, North Africa. One of the "rats of Tobruk surrounded by Rommel's Afrika Korps Bill recalls Good Friday 1941 and the conditions under which they lived for seven months.
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Bill recalls farm animals ans "pets" although when he thinks about it back in the 1920's they didn't really have petys as we know them today, besides his dad was the local butcher!
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Bill has always had friends and in this story he talks about the important people in his life, his friends. A schoolteacher - George Williams - and the two friends he went sailing with every Saturday in summer for 25 years.
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Early schooling was different in the 1920's compared with today. Bill tells how different it was - one room, mone teacher who had one arm (a war injury).
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In this story Bill talks about his brothers and sisters, their education and their closeness as a family and community.
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Bill recalls his parents. His father was a butcher by trade and Bill was born in Riverton South Australia before moving the short distance to Tarlee where he lived in the house that is now the Grasshopper Roadhouse.
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In his 96th year Bill has many Christmases to remember but here he shares his memoroes of childhood Christmases in Tarlee, South Australia during the 1920's. Christmas in the Army was different - he had 2 Christmases in Palestine, one in New Guinea and one in Borneo.
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Bill returned from WWII and found it strange associating with "ordinary people" after living with mates in the Army for the previous 5 years.
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