Meet Ballarat World War II digger Robert Bob Greaves - The Courier - August 11 2023 - video Dailymotion

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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