This is film footage of an interview with WO2 Peter Duff Wilkes that was recorded on 3rd Feb 98 at the Land Warfare Centre, Kokoda Barracks, Witheren. (Canungra)
It was obtained from National Archives Australia
The Team: The Australian Army Training Team Vietnam: 1962-1972 (Video recordings of interviews with Australian veterans recorded by Headquarters Training command – Army)
Synopsis: Australian Vietnam veterans interviewed for the documentary ‘The Team’. Explores the experiences of jungle warfare specialists who became the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV)
Series # A14469
This series consists of video recordings of extended, oral history style interviews of Australian veterans of war, including Australian involvement in the war in the Pacific in World War II, Malaya, the Vietnam War, operations in Afghanistan as well as peacekeeping in Timor Leste. The interviews offer a rich insight into the Australian experience of war and formed the basis for the production of military history documentaries produced by Headquarters Training Command – Army, when based in Georges Heights/Mosman and from 2009, the Army Learning Production Centre as a unit within Forces Command, located in Defence Plaza in the Sydney CBD.
Production of military history documentaries began in 1992 with professional documentary makers commissioned to work with Army audio-visual teams to produce, write, research and direct the documentaries. The documentaries were made for military training and also for public broadcast. Several have been screened on Australian television and all are produced to television broadcast quality. The master tapes of the completed productions are transferred as part of series A7665.
Australian and international television networks have accessed and used segments from these interviews in productions such as the ABC’s Australian Story, Australia’s Secret Heroes by Joined Up Films and Icon Film’s Tom Harrisson: The barefoot anthropologist.
The main format of these records is SP Betacam and Digital Betacam which are the camera tape original, raw footage.
The tapes were stored in-agency in climate controlled conditions from 2002 (18-21 degrees, 35%RH) and arranged according to a unique production number. Camera tapes within each production were numbered sequentially as they were recorded.
Professional transcriptions of many of the interviews are also included as part of this series and are a useful research tool. [As at March 2020 these transcripts are still with the controlling agency]
This video is: Peter Wilkes – Interview
Other Videos in this series are
Alex (John Alexander) Clark – Interview
Marjorie Sullivan – Interview
Frank P. Serong – Interview
Ossie Ostara – Interview
Bob ‘Sooty’ Smith – Interview
Chicca Ison – Interview
Ian Kuring – Interview
Peter Rothwell – Interview
Jock Kelly – Interview
Peter Young – Interview
Matt D’Arcy – Interview
Doug Tear – Interview
Ian McKeown – Interview
Ian Teague – Interview
Denise Clark (Wife of Peter Badcoe VC) – Interview
Don Donkin – Interview
Barry Long – Interview
Vic Pennington – Interview
Noel Dudgeon – Interview
Peter Conway – Interview
Ron Perkins – Interview
Bevan Stokes – Interview
Don Cameron – Interview
Don Phillips – Interview
Tony Mogridge – Interview
Ian McKeown [+ stills] – Interview
Ernie Snelling – Interview
Keith Payne VC – Interview
AATTV Memorial Service at the Home of the Australian Advisers, Canungra QLD (Feb 1999)
Percy White – Interview
Len (Leonard) Opie – Interview
Barry Wade – Interview
Alex Craig – Interview
John Barnes – Interview
Sir Thomas Daly – Interview
Wayne Shennan – Interview
Bazil Muir – Interview
Ian Hodgson – Interview
Abe Green – Interview
Geoff Carter – Interview
Terry Egan – Interview
Edna Wheatly – Interview
Joy Boots – Interview
Mike Wells – Interview
Ray Oliver – Interview
Alan Selva – Slides
Badcoe VC Rest Area at Lake George – Overlay
Russell Lloyd – Interview
George Logan – Interview
Adrian Clunies – Ross – Interview
Carol Buchan – Interview
Ian Teague – Interview
Vin Musgrave – Interview
John Vincent – Interview
Joe DaCosta – Interview
Bill Tomlinson – Paige – Interview
General J. Hartley – Interview
Ray Burnard – Interview
Brian Lawrance – Interview
Tom Colbert – Interview
Dave Brockett – Interview
Carol Buchan – Interview
Wally Thompson – Interview
Bob Kennedy – Interview
Brian Betts – Interview
Larry McGarry – Interview
Don Lord – Interview
Bob Hagerty – Interview
Barry Peterson – Interview
Robbie Robertson – Interview
Ross Buchan – Interview
Nguyen Hun Phu – Interview
George Harris – Interview
Mick Roger – Interview
Marilyn Cameron – Interview
Guy Boileau – Interview
Martin – Interview
Jack Morrison – Interview
Jim Harrower – Interview
Lester Boots – Interview
George Logan – Interview
Jock Kelly and Glenys Kelly – Interview
Pat Beale – Interview
Reg Bandy – Interview
Pat McGrellis – Interview
Bowman – Interview
OD Jackson – Interview
Van Cao – Interview
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