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Document Details
| Title: | Paul Copeland |
| Document type: | Oral history |
| Accessibility: | Free Only |
| Repository: | Victoria. State Library. Special Collections. Australian Manuscripts Collection |
| Collection: | Victorians at War - Oral History Project |
| Description: | Paul grew up in Melbourne and attended Broadmeadows High School. He worked in a shoe warehouse before trying out for enlistment into the air force and then the army at the age of 17. He was accepted into the army in March 1981 and trained at Watsonia, Victoria, as a Radio Operator in the Royal Australian Corps of Signals. After initial training Paul was posted to the 103 Signals Squadron in Townsville, Queensland, the 135 Signals Squadron in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, and then to the 2nd Signal Regiment in Watsonia, Victoria, for 12 months. He undertook training in Special Forces with the 125 Signal Squadron before volunteering to go to Cambodia in 1992. |
| Original Language: | English |
| Audio: | [Audio available] |
| Speaker: | Copeland, Paul |
| Speaker gender: | Male |
| Speaker occupation: | Military personnel |
| Document date: | Undated |
| Organizations discussed: | Australia. Army |
| Locations discussed: | Africa; Asia; Australia; Cambodia; Egypt; Oceania |
| Topics discussed - ASP terms: | Africa; Asia; Australia; Australia. Army; Australia--Armed Forces; Australia--History; Australia--Military policy; Cambodia; Egypt; Oceania; Oral history |
| ASP release: | 2005-06 |
| Document code: | OHI0026760-28935 |