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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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Aerial panorama, a composite of six individual photographs, of ten of the 13 ships from the first ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Aerial panorama, a composite of six individual photographs, of ten of the 13 ships from the first Allied convoy, on the day it left Sydney. Carrying over 13 000 soldiers to the Middle East, comprising...P02510.001
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AIF adopts new training method at Bacchus Marsh (Cinesound News No. 509)
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Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. "The mad half mile", a specially prepared training course has been set up for training soldiers in modern "blitz" methods.F00538
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AIF cemetery, Changi: front entrance
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Griffin shows the entrance path to the AIF cemetery, with gardens and trees on either side. The AIF rising sun symbol strung on two poles at the path entrance.ART26477
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AIF cemetery, Changi: interior
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
In this cemetery are buried all the AIF prisoners-of-war of the Japanese who died in captivity in Changi Goal, Selerang. When this was drawn there was a great difference between the first start of the...ART26478
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AIF embarking at Stonewall Wharf, Sydney
Art
Maker: Norton, Frank
In April 1941 Norton recorded troops from 2 Australian Imperial Force disembarking from a train to board a ferry at Pyrmont in Sydney. The ferry would then take them out to a transport ship. Several...ART21100
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AIF in Adelaide
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Maker: Movietone News
South Australians of the 2nd AIF parade through the Streets of Adelaide. Governor Sir Malcolm Bartley-Harvey takes the salute. The parade almost ends in an enthusiastic riot by the spectators.F01906
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AIF in England: diggers in London
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Maker: Unknown
Australian soldiers on leave in London. The Right Honorable Ernest Bevin with Australian soldiers at Piccadilly Circus.F01070
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AIF in Palestine marathon
Film
Maker: Cinesound
AIF men in 8 kilometre cross country run near Gaza. Commentary, Charles Lawrence Cinesound Review. (See also F01144 for Department of information unedited footage.)F00832
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AIF march, Sydney (Cinesound News No. 467)
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Sydney sees 6,500 men of the AIF march through the city on Australia Day, Lord Gowrie takes the salute.F00509
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AIF return from Malaya
Film
Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
AIF return from Malaya after capitulation of Japan. A general coverage of troops relaxing and playing sport on board troopship. Some shots of a Bofors gun and crew and troops disembarking from troopsh...F01172
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AIF return from Middle East
Film
Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
AIF on board troopships in Suez Canal area and at sea.F01217
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All quiet on the Hills of Jesus
Film
Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Wrecked enemy vehicles in desert near railway station at Tel El Eisa. Staged shots of Australian troops in shallow trench under fire from enemy tank.F01226
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All services canteen Mackay
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
This canteen was the voluntary effort of the women of Mackay. It stood alongside the railway station and throughout the war it never closed, day or night. Its welcome hot meals will not be forgotten b...ART25616
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Anti-aircraft defence
Art
Maker: Herbert, Harold
A Bofors 40mm anti aircraft gun and a slit trench. Emplacements are sand - bagged for protection. In the foreground is an observer's position. The occupant left his steel helmet lying on the ground ou...ART30066
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Anzacs leave for Greece
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Maker: Silk, George
HMAS Perth, takes Australian, British and Palestinian troops to Greek port.F01235
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Arrival and departure, Colombo
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Australian soldiers on a troopship entering Colombo. Troops ashore. Troops sailing away from Colombo.F01004
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1. "Assassinated" Philippines President here 2. AIF returns. (Cinesound News No. 544)
Film
Maker: Cinesound
1. (1 min) Dr Manuel Kathong arrives in Melbourne and is greeted by General Douglas MacArthur 2. (8 min) AIF returns to Australia from the Middle East. General Allen keeps fit playing deck tennis.F00570
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At canteen
Art
Maker: Brindley, John
Lieutenant J.M. Brindley, Pioneer Platoon O.C. (NX70592) created this quick sketch while a member of the 2/19th Battalion in Malaya in 1941. The subject of the drawing is a line up of Australian sold...ART94503
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Aussie rules...
Art
Maker: Wilesmith, Arthur Joseph
Page 11 of sketchbook relating to the service of Sgt Arthur Joseph Wilesmith (QX7653) 2/2 Machine Gun Battalion. 'The Yanks have been teaching us baseball but of course the aussie boys have their own...ART94536.011
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Australia Day 1941
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Maker: Unknown
The 2nd AIF and RAAF march in London on Australia Day. Bad light conditions. RAAF versus the South African services at Rugby Union Football.F01243
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Australian POWs embarking for home on the Largs Bay at Singapore docks
Art
Maker: Buckmaster, Ernest
Ernest Buckmaster was born in Hawthorn, Melbourne on July 3 1897. After being rejected for military service due to his physical frailty Buckmaster attended the National Gallery Art School from 1918-24...ART23374
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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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1. Australians for Singapore 2. News briefs, Melbourne, 1941-11. (Cinesound News No. 486)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News newsreel No. 486. 1. (1 min 10 sec) Australian troops go aboard transports in Sydney Harbour en route to Singapore 2. (3 min) AIF parade through Melbourne streets, RAAF b...F00517
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Awaiting emergency landing
Art
Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Sketch of a tense moment on an airstrip in Northern Australia awaiting a plane reportedly coming in for emergency landing. Wep captured the activities of U.S Bomber Squadron 319 while on his first tou...ART29341
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Back to Aussie again [sketchbook containing 12 pages of humorous sketches relating to army life]
Art
Maker: Wilesmith, Arthur Joseph
Sketchbook of 12 pages relating to the service of Sgt Arthur Joseph Wilesmith (QX7653) 2/2 Machine Gun Battalion. Humorous incidents diary recorded in an Army training camp in Australia on return from...ART94536
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Battle equipment, Derna
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait of an Australian soldier standing with rifle, head slightly lowered.ART22875
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Bennett visits hospital
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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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Black, Robert Hughes (Professor, b.1917 - d.1988)
Private Record
Maker: Black, Robert Hughes
Papers of Professor Robert Hughes Black who was an Australian Army Medical Corps captain and physician at LHQ Medical Research Unit, Cairns during the Second World War (1941 - 1946). The papers includ...PR01437
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Blamey, Thomas Albert, GBE, KCB, CMG, DSO, ED, PSC (Field Marshal, b.1884 - d.1951)
Private Record
Maker: Blamey, Thomas Albert
Folder of mixed papers principally related to biographical details covering Blamey's military career, Order of Service for the presentation of the Field Marshal's Baton by the Governer General, Willia...PR00332
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Boer War - Last war - this war (Sapper Harold Knudsen)
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Maker: Colahan, Colin
Sapper Harold Ferdinand Knudsen (NX11833) served with the 2/1st Australian Forestry Company in Scotland during the Second World War. Note Knudsen is wearing ribbon bar indicating his previous service ...ART26227
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[Boxing under the palms]
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a drawing of a boxing match under the palms, New Guinea.ART90432
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Brigadier A W Wardell, MC (AIF in England)
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Maker: Unknown
NX371 Brigadier A W Wardell, MC seated at a desk facing camera recording speech.F01092
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Camera Club AIF in Cairo
Film
Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Members of the AIF Camera Club tour Cairo, city of strange bazaars and countless mosques. They see the native silver smiths and potters at work and become bargain hunting tourists as well as cameramen...F01050
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Camouflaged artillery
Art
Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a 25 pounder gun camouflaged outside of Damour, Syria (now in Lebanon). Produced during the Syrian campaign and painted in July 1941. The artist wrote of the work 'Camouflaged artillery - Un...ART30090
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Camp at Mena, Cairo
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Camp at Mena, Cairo - Tents are interesting, as the troops live underground, the floor level being well dug-in for anti-aircraft protection. Pyramids in the distance!'.ART30063
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Camp at Mena, Cairo
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Tents are interesting, as the troops live underground, the floor level being well dug down for anti-aircraft protection. Pyramids in the distance, Egypt.ART30061
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Camp life at Gaza
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
General shots taken of Australians in camp and training around camp area Gaza, Palestine. General Sir George Giffard GCB, DSO, GOC British Forces, Palestine inspects Australian camp.F01012
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Camp Panorama
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Qastina encampment and water tower. The town was in what is now the Gaza Strip - it was totally destroyed, (in what conflict is not clear) and no longer exists. The artist writes, 'An extensive view o...ART30071
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Captain Albans
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A portrait of Captain Albans, 2nd Australian Imperial Force, 5th Camouflage Unit, AIFART29877
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Captain J A McNulty
Art
Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of Captain John Albert McNulty, DX1, 2nd Australian Imperial Force. In August 1945, McNulty was appointed the Quarter Master of No. 1 AIF Reception Camp U.K. Following the liberation of priso...ART26291
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Captain L L Gilbert
Art
Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of Captain L L Gilbert, 2nd Australian Imperial Force.ART26294
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Captain Sir James Bisset
Art
Maker: Allcot, John
Portrait of Captain Sir James Gordon Partridge Bisset, Kt, CBE, Commodore of Cunard White Star Company Ltd. He commanded SS Queen Mary from 1942, (during the war it was a troop ship carrying 2 Austral...ART27770
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Cedars, valleys, Roman Bridge (Syria)
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Two shots of old Roman Bridge then swirling, mist covered valley. Australian soldiers visit small church in Cedar Forest. Ron M Williams Department of Information and driver facing away from camera ri...F01137
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Christmas message recorded in Cairo, Egypt on 23 December 1941 by the Commander of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force (2nd AIF), General Thomas Blamey for playing to the Australian troops in the Middle East
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Maker: Blamey, Thomas Albert
"Fellow members of the AIF (Australian Imperial Force), I have just had the privilege of visiting home for a very short period. I was called home by the Australian Government to discuss with them all ...S00176
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Churches (Syria)
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Standing high on the extreme point of one of the coastal mountains between Beirut and Tripoli is the Church of Lady of Lebanon or sometimes known as the great Madonna. The church acts as a 50 feet bas...F01134
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Churchill's visit to camp (AIF in England)
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Maker: Unknown
Mr Winston Churchill inspects Australian and New Zealand troops on a parade and takes salute at march past.F01090
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Churchill's visit to the desert
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Prime Minister Winston Churchill's visit to the troops in the Middle East. The troops he is visiting have just come out of line and have stopped on the roadway, and give him a welcome. This was a unex...F01230
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Church parade (Syria)
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Church parade in the village of Alley, HQ 1st Australian Corps in Syria and Lebanon. The Minister conducting service is SX10008 Senior Chaplain Arthur Leslie Bulbeck of Adelaide, SA. Band of Corps Gua...F01136
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100,000 cobbers
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Maker: Nicholas, Bert Hall, Kenneth George Shepherd, William Cross, Clive Smith, Arthur G
A Department of Information film produced by Cinesound portraying four young Australian men and an ex First World War veteran before joining the Australian Military Forces; volunteering, service train...F01301