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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That being said, I'm still astounded at the way it continues to shape Australian national life.
The war is everywhere.
I live near the beach between Sydney and Newcastle.
On my way to work, I drive past three return service men's clubs.
All of these are shrines to the Second World War.
You can sit and play a poker machine next to a glass case filled with war memorabilia.
This three hundred oh three cartridge was kindly donated by Bert Sugdon and family, Long Jetty, New South Wales.
Growing up I would play cricket in Riverwood, and
Once home to the biggest Allied hospital in Australia, it was visited by MacArthur and Eleanor Roosevelt and once had over four hundred ninety buildings and catered for over two thousand patients.
It's suburbia now.
The score is sit in an old wooden hut.
The only building that remains.
Jack from all accounts was gentle, kind and cerebral.
He loved chess, reading the classics and cricket.
When he was asked to stay a few nights in the jungle to monitor and record aircraft, he was lonely and frightened.
Probably a little bored.
Past the time he carved a full set of chess pieces out of wood from nearby trees.
He dyed the pieces with shoe polish when he got back to Moresby.
I still have this chess set, and I cherish it.
I saw the chess set when I was young, and I remember asking him for a game once.
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