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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Can you imagine how frightening that would have been?
Alone in a jungle somewhere north of Port Moresby.
Jack was a mild mannered lawyer from Petersham, and this drastic and savage interruption to his life can't be underestimated.
Jack's mum, dad, and sisters never really recovered from his years away either.
My great grandmother sent herself literally insane by saying Hail Mary's again and again every day until he got home.
The lack of accurate information was also torturous.
Neighbours, talking over the fence in Randwick, were not privy to military intelligence.
Again, the Japanese were only a rumour away, and by all accounts the Japanese were expected to land at Bondi any minute.
My grandmother lived by the train line and remembers troop train after troop train.
US soldiers and sailors were billeted throughout the neighborhood, and military uniforms were a fixture of daily life.
The war was everywhere.
My grandfather's letters were censored, and he wrote quite rarely as well.
His family had no idea what he was doing or where he was.
This for almost three years.
Three years without a decent amount of sugar, or butter or petrol and no cricket, and air raid drills at school and tension and fear.
It must have been awful.
Everyone felt the pressure, whether you served or you didn't.
Australia was spared aerial bombing and our cities were all intact.
Aussies were pretty desperate to move on.
Jack returned home from a war, signed whatever he had to sign in a suburban post office, and went to work as a solicitor the next day.
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