• Title
  Item 10: Tape 12 William Wood and Norman Wood interview by Anne Whitehead, 13 May 1982
• Call number
  MLOH 890/12
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  13 May 1982
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9653575
• Physical Description
  1 audiocassette (approximately 1 hr, 30 min.)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  William (Bill or Guillermo) Wood Jr. Known in the 1980s as the ‘Patriarch of Cosme”. Born in Surry Hills, Sydney and six months old when his family travelled to Paraguay in 1895, he was the eldest of the eight children of pioneers William and Lillian Wood. His father, William Sr., had been Secretary of the General Labourers’ Union at Bourke and was the “Little Billy Woods” [sic] of two Henry Lawson stories. Bill/Guillermo grew up at Colonia Cosme, worked in the timber business, enlisted for the British Army in WWI and was posted to Gallipoli where he met Australians in large numbers for the first time. He married Mabel Apthorpe, daughter of British recruits to Cosme colony, Leonard and Laura Apthorpe. Norman Wood is the third son of William and Lillian Wood, born at Cosme in 1899. Norman was a cattle rancher all his life, in the wild Chaco and in country near the northern Paraguay town of Concepción. His second wife Doña Leonarda, like his first wife, was a Paraguayan.
• Scope and Content
  This is an interview with William Wood recorded at his home in Asuncion later in the evening on 13 May 1982 and joined by his brother Norman Wood. They talk about returning to Australia, the divide of 1910, Power Co., World War 1 Gallipoli Jerusalem and teaching
• Access Conditions
  
  Master only. For access to this oral history collection please submit your request through Ask a Librarian
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales courtesy of Anne Whitehead
• General note
  
  Tape 12 Side A transcript pages 335-351 and Side B transcript pages 351-366
  Transcript available at MLMSS 12032/Box 1
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Wood, William, 1895-
  Wood, Norman, 1899-
  
• Subject
  Wood, William, 1895---Interviews.
  Wood, Norman, 1899---Interviews.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE21162730

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