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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
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MELBOURNE, VIC. 16 JULY 1945. A NATIVE LATRINE COVER WITH FOOT OPERATED LID, FOR USE IN TROPICAL ...
Photograph
MELBOURNE, VIC. 16 JULY 1945. A NATIVE LATRINE COVER WITH FOOT OPERATED LID, FOR USE IN TROPICAL AREAS, SHOWING LID IN CLOSED POSITION; SUBMITTED TO THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY INVENTIONS DIRECTORATE.110805
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105 mm Improvised artillery mortar spigot shell
Technology
Maker: Japanese Armed Forces
This is an improvised spigot shell which was fired from a 105 mm improvised mortar - see RELAWM 36878. It was fabricated from a 105 mm High Explosive artillery shell (as used in the Type 91 howitzer)...RELAWM33904
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Natives carrying wounded soldier
Art
Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depictd a group of unidentified natives carrying wounded soldier on improvised stretcher through jungle, Aitape, New Guinea.ART26133
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not titled [portrait of man wearing head scarf and red beaded necklace]
Art
Maker: Jackson, Charles G.
Charles G. Jackson was a British civilian interned in Changi during the Second World War. Already in his sixties Jackson was a long time resident of Singapore (arrived in 1901), a trained artist he wa...AWM2016.561.3
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Old Saleh
Art
Maker: Jackson, Charles G.
Charles G. Jackson was a British civilian interned in Changi during the Second World War. Already in his sixties Jackson was a long time resident of Singapore (arrived in 1901), civil servant and trai...AWM2016.561.2
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Pair of shorts : Driver M H Store, 2/3 Reserve Motor Company 8th Division AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Store, Mark Hill
Pair of hand made faded blue-grey cotton shorts. The exterior surfaces of the fabric is significantly faded with several parts of the internal facing giving an indication of the original dark blue-gr...REL45061
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Prisoner of War Pullover : Lieutenant A L Walker, 2/1 Australian Machine Gun Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Scoular, James C 'Jimmy'
Green, brown and khaki wool pullover, with a high rolled cowl collar. The collar, sleeves and body are worked in stocking stitch and the cuffs and basque in rib.The collar is green, the body brown and...REL/05674
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Put the idea in the suggestion box
Art
Maker: Glasscock, R H.M. Stationery Office LONDON : MINISTRY OF AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION, 1945. (BRITISH : E.S. & A ROBINSON FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFF Ministry for Aircraft Production E.S. & A Robinson
During the Second World War, ordinary citizens could contribute ideas through a government suggestion box system. This enabled all people, who may have been involved in various aspects of war work or ...ARTV01586
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P.W. huts, Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Very many huts arose throughout the Selerang area to accommodate those prisoners-of-war who could not be crowded into the buildings. The huts were built of any possible available material, e.g the one...ART26515
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RAAF anti-g suit testing
Photograph
Maker: RAAF Central Photographic Establishment
Professor Frank Stanley Cotton (1890-1955) and others involved with the RAAF in the development of the aerodynamic anti-g flying suit which minimised the effects of high-speed flying on pilots. At the...AWM2020.608.21
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Radio sets and other articles made by POW in Changi Prison
Film
Maker: McKechnie, Frank
Many radio receivers were constructed by Lieutenant R Wright of Hawthorne, Vic, during captivity in Changi. Three types are shown being concealed in a broom head, a clock and in a table leg. In additi...F07337
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Rice grinding, Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts two unidentified men using improvised rice grinder. An old native stone mill made to work more easliy with a lever, Changi, Singapore, 1943.ART26522
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Rocket flight
Film
Maker: Air Ministry
Air Ministry AI 2 (G) Report No 1836. Covers the history and development of rocket powered flight and German developments to 1945. Includes: early experiments with rocket propulsion (rocket powered ...F03580
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Singapore POWs
Film
Maker: RAAF Cine Unit
Pakanbaru POW Camp Sumatra, POWs waiting their turn to be evacuated watch other RAAF aircraft leaving for Singapore. RAAF aircrews loading stretcher cases onto C-47 Dakota transport aircraft. 2/14 Aus...F02617
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Stalag 357 POW camp (C/B 480)
Film
The German prisoner of war camp Stalag XXA (357) located at Thorn (Torun), Poland. View of camp and group shots of POWs. Diary entry "April 16 The Big day Freedom". Scenes of campfire. POWs fetching f...F02587
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Stevenson, Frank Arthur (b.1898 - d.1966)
Private Record
Maker: Stevenson, Frank Arthur
Collection relating to the Second World War experience of Frank Arthur Stevenson, inventor, Bendigo, 1939-1946. Collection consists for 275 documents relating to various inventions that Mr Stevenson ...AWM2016.513.1
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That's the idea!
Art
Maker: Glasscock, R Ministry of Aircraft Production E S & A Robinson Ltd
Advisory poster depicting a worker putting an idea into a suggestion box, and being rewarded by management with national savings certificatesARTV01585
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They serve
Film
Maker: Driver, Roy Herschells Films Shell Historical Archives
This film is a Shell Company contribution toward the efforts of the Australian Red Cross telling the Australian public of the vital need for its assistance in maintaining the activities of the Red Cro...F01970
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Tracked truck tests in mud
Film
Maker: Rintel, David Leslie
An Australian Army Research film produced by Military History (Cinema Section). Shows the Track Truck under test in the mud. Mechanics removing plate. Close ups of sterring, track, foot levers and boi...F07479
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Training and experimental work of the 4th Armoured Brigade at Southport, Queensland
Film
Maker: Pentreath, Albert Stanley Rintel, David Leslie
Training and experimental work of the 4th Armoured Brigade at Southport, Queensland. Firing, flame-throwing, bridging, making tanks, jeeps etc., amphibious, and the trials.F07112
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United States Army manoeuvres, Brisbane
Film
American Army training in amphibious landings on the Queensland Coast. Assault boats towed by Australian motor boats close inshore, slipped; then assault boats are paddled in by troops. American troop...F01691
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Washday in the Pacific
Film
Nissan Island, Pacific, New Zealand troops use novel washing machines for clothes. Commentary by Bill Maloney, Movietone News.F00810