AUDIO
Interview with Wallace O'Conner
- Date
- 20 Apr 1996
- By
- O'Conner, Wallace Charles, active 1930s-1990s
- Reference
- OHInt-0610-5
- Description
Wallace Charles O'Conner talks about in family in detail, naming all brothers and sisters. Provides memories of his parents and the 1931 Napier earthquake. Outlines childhood in Johnsonville with grandparents, various aunts and uncles and the Harrison family. Talks about relations in Otaki and Te Horo. Discusses time at school, bicycle racing and marriage to wife Rose.
Details position in the Divisional Petrol Company of the New Zealand 2nd Expeditionary Force in the Middle East during World War II. Recounts interaction with the Tanks Transport Unit in Italy, replacement drafts, personalities and deaths within his unit, importance of food and water and the spirit of the soldiers. Also discusses the 2nd and 3rd Battalions, Crete and the Maori Battalion.
Outlines wife's occupations during the war and his continued employment in the regular army. Talks about their children, Wallace relations and trips to Manakau.
Interviewer(s) - Michael Walsh
Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-013214, OHC-013215
Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.50 Hours and minutes Duration.
Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4611.
- Additional description
Digital surrogates available only in Katherine Mansfield Reading Room.
- Use/Reproduction
- Public use requires the written permission of the donor Copyright: Held by Michael Walsh
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material
- Part of
- Whanaungatanga : Ngati Wehiwehi me Nga Rauru oral history project
- Format
- 2 C60 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), 1.50 Hours and minutes Duration, Oral histories
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Interview with Wallace O'Conner, tape two
Date: 20 Apr 1996
From: Whanaungatanga : Ngati Wehiwehi me Nga Rauru oral history project
Reference: OHC-013215
Description: Arrangement: Tape sequence - 2 of 2 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Wallace O'Conner, tape one
Date: 20 Apr 1996
From: Whanaungatanga : Ngati Wehiwehi me Nga Rauru oral history project
Reference: OHC-013214
Description: Arrangement: Tape sequence - 1 of 2 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Wallace O'Conner, printed abstract
From: Whanaungatanga : Ngati Wehiwehi me Nga Rauru oral history project
Reference: OHA-4611
Description: Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s).