James Holland
speaker
22,142 appearances
48 recordings
7 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 5d ago
James Holland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Stan said four words near the end of his life and left a loft full of log books.
William left a tape recording that barely anyone knew existed.
They never knew that their wars had crossed paths.
Well, thank you, Will, for those fascinating stories.
Holding the Russians accountable is World War.
They took down a British passenger jet containing 350 people.
We would need to understand the policy context.
Right, now our next contributor is Mitchell.
My grandfather Jack served in the second twelfth Australian Field Ambulance from nineteen forty three onwards.
He died when I was eight, and I adored him, revered him, and was petrified of him in equal parts.
I was obsessed by Wall growing up, and was from a young age drunk on the Australian Anzac legend.
My grandfather would wear his slouch hat when he mowed the lawns, so I knew he served but was too young and probably too scared to ask any questions.
I know his stories via stories from my mum, and an old shoebox that was given to me by my grandfather twenty years ago filled with scattered, unfinished war diaries, letters, and other documents.
Jack was part of a generation of Australians who grew up in the shadow of their fathers who served in the First World War.
It's impossible to explain the formative impact the First World War had on Australia.
Over 60,000 were killed from this very young nation, and not a single family was left unscarred.
Jack grew up in a family
where there was a portrait of the King on the wall, so when nineteen thirty nine rolled around, there was an enormous expectation that these men would follow in their father's footsteps.
Before Pearl Harbor in Singapore the war was a long way away.
In Sydney, life was pretty normal.
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