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- Title
- Memories of Service 3 - Colin Ramsey
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- NZ On Screen
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- NZ On Screen
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Colin Ramsey was rejected on medical grounds when he volunteered for World War ll, but not long after, he was called up and soon found himself training at Papakura Military Camp. An ambulance driver in the 3rd New Zealand Division, the first part of Colin’s war was in the Pacific. The realities of the conflict hit home while serving in the Solomons. He and his comrades were sent to collect the American casualties of a Japanese bombing raid, a grizzly experience. At 93, Colin’s memory is sharp...
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- Video
- Date created
- 2016
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- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/memories-service-colin-ramsey-2016
- Related subjects
- nz army / 1940 / conscription / avondale race course / papakura military camp / medical corps / army services corps / ambulance / wellington / new caledonia / third division / 3rd division / 22nd field ambulance / 14th brigade / fourteenth brigade / uss president adams / uss ward / apd / guadalcanal / vella lavella island / japanese air force / bombing / dakota dc3 / dysentery / italy / rome / bari / liberty boat / 14th reinforcements / italian wine / 1939-45 star / pacific star / italy star / defence medal / medical corp / twenty second field ambulance / dc3 / world war two / world war / second world war / ww2
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