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Advance into Syria
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Australian engineer recovery team at work. Showing captured Vichy French vehicles and guns: Renault UE Chenillette armoured tracked carrier towing another carrier with trailer and 25mm anti-tank gun, ...F01100
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All quiet on the Hills of Jesus
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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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Battle of Egypt
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Australian and British troops in the Alamein area; Infantry, Artillery, Cavalry. VX46983 Brigadier Raymond Walter Tovell and 225 (NX73) Major Charles Hector Finlay of 26 Australian Infantry Brigade; G...F01223
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Bedouin fair
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
'A' Squadron of the 7th Australian Division Cavalry Regiment motor cycle patrol enters native village of Neirab, Northern Syria where members are greeted by the locals. Shots of native market.F01151
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Bethlehem, scenes of countryside
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
High angle; pan left to right over Bethlehem, Palestine. Three members of film unit in foreground at start of pan.F01059
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Billeting at Barraca Cyrenaica
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Australian troops billeted with Italian settlers at Bardia, Cyrenaica. Private M Nichollis repairs Italian peasant girls sandal.F01067
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Blamey, 1940 Christmas message
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
General Sir Thomas Blamey sends Christmas message to the people of Australia and Britain. Full text of message in the sound track.F01058
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Blood transfusion story
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
El Alamein area, 5 August 1942. A soldier with a shrapnel wound in the abdomen being transferred from an ambulance to a resuscitation tent; examined by medical officer and blood transfusion adminstere...F01225
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Brigadier Fallen, message to New Zealand
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Brigadier Fallen (New Zealand Army) sends a Christmas message to the people of New Zealand from New Zealanders serving in the Middle East.F01053
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Camera Club AIF in Cairo
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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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Camp concert (Syria)
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Syria, 1941. This concert was arranged by the troops for the troops. The organiser was NX12498 Lieutenant John James Talbot of the 7th Division Ammunition Park and the show was held in their camp. Ope...F01142
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Casualty Clearing Station (Syria)
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Introduction by VX234 Lieutenant Colonel Henry McLorinan, Commanding Officer 2/1 Casualty Clearing Station. General shots of hospital open air ward. Beds are arranged under a shady colonade that surro...F01135
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Cavalcade of victory
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
For some months British Allied Forces and the Axis Army, lay locked in stalemate in the desert of Quatara and El Alamein. Rommel's thrust to conquer Egypt had failed, but he was massing for another d...F01825
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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, 1940
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
This film is made up of a number of fill-in shots. Scenes 1, 2, 5, at Deir Suneid (November 1940); the 2/1st Pioneer Battalion Band provides marching rhythm as the 19 Australian Infantry Training Batt...F01056
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Christmas story, 1941
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Sound track introduction by General Sir Thomas Blamey, GOC AIF ME. A comedy sequence by Captain Frank Hurley on Christmas greetings 1941 from troops and nurses in Middle East. Identified personnel are...F01123
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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 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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Church service. Libyan letter
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
The 2/11th Australian Infantry Battalion billeted in old Roman Catacombs around Torca Castle (HQ 2/11th Battalion) have a short respite from battle in which to catch up on letters home, cleaning and r...F01071