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Aborigines are true soldiers of the King (Cinesound News No. 488)
Film
Maker: Cinesound
Wangaratta Camp, Victoria. An entire squad of Aboriginal men, the only one of its kind in the AIF.F00519
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ALLIED TROOPS IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA HAVE FOUND IN THE ABORIGINES AN UNFAILING SOURCE OF INTEREST. ...
Photograph
Maker: McNeil, John Earl (Earl)
ALLIED TROOPS IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA HAVE FOUND IN THE ABORIGINES AN UNFAILING SOURCE OF INTEREST. THEY ARE MYSTIFIED BY THE NATIVES' UNCANNY KNOWLEDGE OF BUSHCRAFT, AND ARE AMAZED AT THEIR SKILL WITH ...012849/16
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Arm injury - amputation
Art
Maker: Aubrey-Crowe, George
Australian Military Forces, Services Reconnaissance Department, Native Constabulary; R416 Warrant 1 Yauwiga (or Yauwika) DCM, M Special, AMF, with loyalty medal, left arm amputated below elbow, wearin...ART24397
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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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Army trains wild donkeys for pack work
Film
Maker: Driver, Roy
During the wet season tracks to army outposts become too boggy for motor convoys. To overcome this difficulty the army are rounding up wild donkeys to be trained as pack animals. These donkeys are rat...F01258
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Army visit to Bathurst Island and Melville Island
Film
Maker: Crispe, Ronald Roy
This film was taken by WX30779 Lieutenant Ronald Roy Crispe, Darwin Coast Artillery AIF, while on visit with a Darwin Water Transport vessel to Catholic missions at Bathurst Island and Melville Island...F03714
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Australian POW's return to England
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Lancaster bombers of No 622 Sqn RAF parked on airfield. Lancaster of No 138 Sqn RAF taxis into frame. Medium shot of servicemen (POWs?) deplaning and gathering near aircraft to pose for camera. Lancas...F02635
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AWM315 449/001/041 - [Australian War Memorial registry files - Second series:] Inquiries regarding part played by Australian Aborigines
Digitised Collection
AWM2016.747.177
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Badu Island Aeroplane dance headdress: American B-25 Mitchell bomber
Art
Maker: Williams, Dick
Unmounted wooden airplane styled to resemble a Mitchell bomber, painted green with faux Australian markings. This detailed aircraft replica is the contemporary feature of the ceremonial headdresses w...ART94620
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Badu Island Aeroplane dance headdress: American B-25 Mitchell bomber
Art
Maker: Williams, Dick
Unmounted wooden airplane styled to resemble a Mitchell bomber, painted green with faux American markings. This detailed aircraft replica is the contemporary feature of the ceremonial headdresses wor...ART94619
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Badu Island Aeroplane dance headdress stand: American B-25 Mitchell bomber
Art
Maker: Williams, Dick
Wooden stand to accompany Mitchell bomber headdress.ART94619.001
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Badu Island Aeroplane dance headdress stand: American B-25 Mitchell bomber
Art
Maker: Williams, Dick
Wooden stand to accompany Mitchell bomber headdress.ART94620.001
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Bennett visits hospital
Film
Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Major General Henry Gordon Bennett, CB, CMG, DSO, VD visits hospital, Singapore. He talks to patients. Patients receive treatment. Scene of an Australian Aboriginal soldier in a hospital bed.F01167
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Bomb damage, graves of air victims, defences and local Aboriginal people (Darwin series, 2)
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Bomb damage to Darwin Hospital; staff working in hospital. Graves of air raid victims. Soldiers preparing defence position. Local Aboriginal people.F01179
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Cameron, Donald M (MHR for Fadden (Qld))
Private Record
Maker: Cameron, Donald M
Collection relating to the military service of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people during the South African (Boer) War, First World War, Second World War, Malayan Emergency, Korean War and Vi...PR87/078
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CENTRAL AUSTRALIA 1940-11. AN ABORIGINE OF THE "TCHINGILI" IN CEREMONIAL DRESS PRIOR TO A ...
Photograph
Maker: Pearse, Reg G
CENTRAL AUSTRALIA 1940-11. AN ABORIGINE OF THE "TCHINGILI" IN CEREMONIAL DRESS PRIOR TO A CORROBOREE. (PHOTOGRAPHER R. PEARSE)003931
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[coconuts]
Art
Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
A scene with coconuts and notes about colouring. The verso of this page features a study of several standing figures at an Aboriginal mission station. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as 'WEP'...ART96481
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Collection relating to RAAF Radar Stations
Private Record
Maker: Gilbert, Lionel Arthur James Various
Collection of 3 vocabulary lists translating between English language words and Iwaidja, Tiwi, and Murrinh-patha words, compiled by Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) personnel stationed at remote RAA...PR03582
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Corroboree for troops
Film
Maker: Carty, William Montague
Mataranka, Northern Territory, November 1942. Aboriginals stage a corroboree for troops.F01785
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Dacy, Desmond Joseph (Sergeant, b.1917 - d.1986)
Private Record
Maker: Dacy, Desmond Joseph
Collection relating to the Second World War service of Sergeant Desmond Joseph Dacy, Borneo and Australia, 1942-1945. The collection consists of two diaries written by Sergeant Dacy covering the peri...PR00782