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Airborne supplies
Film
Maker: Military History Section
An Australian Army Research Film produced by Military History (Cinema Section). Shows experiments in the dropping of airborne supplies into a large wire mesh net, specially designed for this purpose. ...F07037
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Army improvises huts native style
Film
Maker: Carty, William Montague
The 27th Battalion AMF shows what can be done in the Australian bush. First men chop down trees, saw them and cut them into lengths for uprights of their huts. Then paper bark trees are skinned and th...F01788
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1. Army tests compressed foods 2. RAAF departure. (Cinesound News No. 517)
Film
Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News newsreel No. 517. 1. (1 min 44 sec) Food briquettes compressed under a compression of one ton contain a square meal. May be the answer of iron rations for paratroops. Vic...F00546
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1. Australian engineers help build military railway 2. Owen Gun passes test 3. Thanksgiving Day (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 51)
Film
Maker: Fox Movietone News
1. (1 min 44 sec) AIF, British and South African Troops construct Syrian link in strategic Middle East railroad 2. (1 min 57 sec) Owen Gun is demonstrated by the inventor 3. (43 sec) Thanksgiving day ...F00373
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CHANGI, SINGAPORE, SEPTEMBER 1942. PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN DURING THE SELARANG BARRACKS SQUARE INCIDENT, ...
Photograph
CHANGI, SINGAPORE, SEPTEMBER 1942. PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN DURING THE SELARANG BARRACKS SQUARE INCIDENT, IN WHICH OVER 15,000 BRITISH AND AUSTRALIAN POWS WERE CONFINED IN THE SELARANG BARRACKS SQUARE AFTER R...P00077.018
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Chapel service at Toko
Art
Maker: Herman, Sali
Toko; 3rd Australian Division; service in improvised chapel in jungleART22852
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Chungkai, Thailand. Feb 1944. Drawings executed by prisoner of war (POW) artists to illustrate ...
Photograph
Chungkai, Thailand. Feb 1944. Drawings executed by prisoner of war (POW) artists to illustrate improvised medical instruments and aids used in the POW camps in Thailand. Illustrated is a bed pan. (Art...101053
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Civilian internees and dockyards, Singapore
Film
Maker: Anderson, Alan Frederick
General shots of civilian internees wandering around after release from Japanese internment camps. A few shots of released Australian POW. Allister Greig of Western Australia, artist, displays some of...F01438
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1. Darwin diggers have definite opinion 2. On guard home guard. (Cinesound News No. 526)
Film
Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News newsreel No 526. 1. (1 min 42 sec) AIF men back from Darwin have a few grouches to make about not being sent overseas 2. (1 min 55 sec) Home guard training with Molotov C...F00555
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1. Diggers troppo band inspires Aborigines 2. News briefs. Wreckage of first hostile aircraft shot down over Australia. Dutch ship damaged. (News From Home. No. 1) (Cinesound Review No. 580)
Film
Maker: Cinesound
1. (2 min 30 sec) Jazz band improvised from makeshift instruments gives a performance outside Darwin, local Aborigines stage a Corroboree. Jazz music dubbed over Aborigine item 2. (54 sec) Wreckage of...F00701
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Dyring, Alfred Edgar (Warrant Officer, b.1921 - d.2011)
Private Record
Maker: Dyring, Alfred Edgar
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 15577 Warrant Officer Alfred Edgar ‘Eddie’ Dyring, 2 Squadron and 1 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, Australia, 2003. Wallet 1 of 1 – Consi...PR05695
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Furniture (by POW)
Art
Maker: Brindley, John
Depicts seven groups of make-shift furniture acquired or made by prisoners of war at the River Road Camp: a plank chair, a rope swinging bed, a suspended slat bed, a cigarette lighter, a dressing tabl...ART28114
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German Dr Fritz Todt Prize Badge, Second Class, presentation case
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Dr Fritz Todt Prize Badge, Second Class, presentation case. Red leatherette hinged box with 'Dr.-Fritz-Todt-Preis' printed in gold on the white silk lining of the lid. Fitted with a spring loaded butt...RELAWM30373.002
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German Dr Fritz Todt Prize Badge, Second Class (silver)
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Dr Fritz Todt Prize Badge, Second Class, in silver. Obverse: A large German eagle standing on a banner inscribed 'DR FRITZ TODT' over a cog wheel with a swastika in the centre. Reverse: Plain with a l...RELAWM30373.001
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Jungle warfare medical
Film
Maker: Military History Section
Training of stretcher bearers and medical personnel in collection of wounded in the jungle, by means of improvised stretchers, and the provision of operating theatres using bush timber in construction...F07036
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Kuching POW Camp
Film
Maker: Rainsford, Keith Carr
Scenes taken at POW camp, Kuching, where some one thousand three hundred people, British, Australian troops and civilians and some Roman Catholic priests had gathered. Parade for visit of 351001 (VX7)...F07331
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Land and live in the jungle
Film
Maker: First Motion Picture Film Unit Army Air Forces
Official War Department training film TF I-334 produced by the First Motion Picture Unit Army Air Forces. Dramatisation featuring the downed crew of a B-25 to demonstrate the basic principles of survi...F02335
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Lathe, Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
2 Australian Imperial Force; lathe made from salvaged materials, set in heavy wooden bedART26523
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Lieutenant Colonel Harry Tasker's home movies 1941-1951
Film
Maker: Tasker, Henry McKean
Lieutenant Colonel Harry Tasker's home movies 1941-1951F10877
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Mechanical cane cutter at work
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
The inventor of this simple harvester was a Queenslander, Larry Moloney of Mackay. It has proved a valuable aid in the quick harvesting of cane during the war period, when; on most farms, there was a ...ART25656