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Oral history of John Maclay

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Collection SummaryThis interview with John Maclay of Pine Street Rydalmere is one of over 160 interviews conducted 1997-1999 to form Recording Ryde's Oral History Collection

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John Maclay discusses his life in Ermington in the early 1900s until the 1930s. He talks of his early illnesses and employment, involvement with local political issues, courtship of his future wife, his imprisonment in Changi and treatment for post-war illnesses. He also recounts the return of World War I diggers and other memories of the local area at that time with particularly interesting and vivid anecdotes.

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