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John Harrison: RA Svy

Posted on: Mon 10 Oct 2022

As a young enlistee into the Army’s Royal Australian Survey Corps, John headed off to the Northern Territory in 1957 with a survey chain, a couple of axes and a few fellow Surveyors to map previously uncharted areas.  An insight to an Army Corps that no longer exists but played a huge role in both our Defence forces and in the development of Australia.

Interview from 2017 – repeat broadcast at special request

Interviewer Helen Meyer

Image: Shoulder patch RA Survey AWM

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