{"id":5,"date":"2014-05-26T00:22:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T12:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/?p=5"},"modified":"2022-12-25T17:15:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T05:15:48","slug":"episode-1-joining-the-army-and-training-in-new-zealand-courage-and-valour-new-zealanders-in-the-italian-campaign-in-wwii-1943-1945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/episode-1-joining-the-army-and-training-in-new-zealand-courage-and-valour-new-zealanders-in-the-italian-campaign-in-wwii-1943-1945\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 1 &#8211; Joining the Army and Training In New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Episode One:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this first episode we hear veterans of the New Zealand Army remembering the days when they first joined up, and their training at home, their garrison duties and courses undertaken, and all that went into preparing them for war later in Italy<\/p>\n<p><em>Featuring:<\/em><br \/>\nJack Cumming (22 Battalion)<br \/>\nPat Green (24 Battalion)<br \/>\nNorm Harris (24 Battalion)<br \/>\nTed &#8216;Bluey&#8217; Homewood&nbsp; (21 Battalion)<br \/>\nHarry Hopping (24 Battalion)<br \/>\nBrynn Hughes (26 Battalion)<br \/>\nTom McLennan&nbsp; (7th Field Comp, NZ Engineers)<br \/>\nColin Murray (24 Battalion)<br \/>\nBob O&#8217;Brien (24 Battalion)<br \/>\nNeil Scott&nbsp; (6th Field Ambulance)<\/p>\n<p>Duration: 58 minutes 33 seconds<br \/>\nNarration provided by Jason McQuarters<br \/>\nRecordings and Editing by Dave Homewood<br \/>\nProduced by Dave Homewood<\/p>\n<p>For extra information relating to this episode please go here:<br \/>\n<a title=\"Extra - Episode One \" href=\"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Extra_Army_Camps.html\">https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Extra_Army_Camps.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NB: Air Force and Navy Training will be covered in later episodes<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5792\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-content\/uploads\/Courage_And_Valour_Episode_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-content\/uploads\/Courage_And_Valour_Episode_1.mp3\">https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-content\/uploads\/Courage_And_Valour_Episode_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-content\/uploads\/Courage_And_Valour_Episode_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/?powerpress_pinw=5-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-content\/uploads\/Courage_And_Valour_Episode_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Courage_And_Valour_Episode_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode One:<\/p>\n<p>In this first episode we hear veterans of the New Zealand Army remembering the days when they first joined up, and their training at home, their garrison duties and courses undertaken, and all that went into preparing them for war later in Italy<\/p>\n<p>Featuring: Jack Cumming (22 Battalion) Pat Green (24 Battalion) Norm [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episodes","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}