Meet Ballarat World War II digger Robert Bob Greaves - The Courier - August 11 2023
Meet Ballarat World War II digger Robert Bob Greaves. Video by Gabrielle Hodson
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00:23 Can you tell us how you met your wife?
00:26 Well, in the camp at Murchison.
00:32 POW camp in the office there. She was a postal clerk actually.
00:42 Was it love at first sight?
00:44 More or less. It was hard to get though.
00:48 Did you have to fiend off a few other fellas?
00:51 Competition.
00:54 And working in a POW camp, we see movies, that sort of thing.
00:57 Australian POW camps were pretty different, weren't they?
01:02 They looked after pretty well.
01:11 Italian.
01:21 Oh yeah, they had proper workshops.
01:29 Had to do something in their spare time.
01:33 And this is pretty clever, this box.
01:37 I guess it's a jewellery box or a keepsake box.
01:40 It's quite secure, isn't it?
01:42 That's right.
01:45 So that would sit in your bookcase, you'd never know.
01:51 Pull that out.
02:00 I'm impressed that you've kept all the bits and pieces.
02:06 I'm just trying to think.
02:09 Pull that one down.
02:13 And that.
02:16 Ta-da!
02:19 That is very impressive.
02:25 Actually, Italian prisons had everything except coffee.
02:31 They couldn't get enough coffee.
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