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2/29 Battalion at Segamat, Malaya
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Maker: Aikin, Hamilton
1.(Colour) Segamat Malaya 1941, men of the 2/29 Battalion AIF marching. 2. (B&W) 2/29 Battalion AIF on parade and Bren gun carriers. VX38973 LTCOL James Charles Robertson MC VD has been identified as ...F03385
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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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Blamey inspects 6th Division, Atherton
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Maker: Trerise, John William
The Commander in Chief, General Sir Thomas Blamey, reviews troops of the 6th Australian Division at a parade held on the Wondecla Show Grounds at Atherton Queensland. General Sir Thomas Blamey reviews...F01705
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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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Bren gun carriers on manoeuvers
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Bren gun carriers manoeuvre over rough desert country.F01045
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Carrier weapon handling
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Maker: Army Kinematography Services
A Britiish military training film made at the School of Infantry, produced for the Directorate of Army Kinematography, approved November 1942. This film demonstrates method of handling a weapon carrie...F05044
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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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Christmas in Syria, 1941
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Maker: Military History Section
Various shots of Syrian and Australian troops watching horse races at Beirut. Shots of the horses, jockeys and activities at the track. Trucks towing 25 pounder field guns down the road. Marching band...F07004
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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
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Darwin and Central Australia
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Maker: Munro, Kenneth John
Open plain somewhere between Victoria River, Downs Station and Darwin, a herd of cattle in the distance. Soldiers operating Well Drilling Plant. Tents being erected at Adelaide River for Army Hospit...F07027
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Demonstration of AFVs at Fisherman's Bend
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Maker: Rintel, David Leslie
Fisherman's Bend, Victoria 9 April 1942. Coverage of demonstration and trials of Australian made Bren Gun Carriers, Scout Cars and Sentinel Cruiser Tank. Identified: Major General L E Beavis, Master...F07029
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Early manoeuvres Western Desert
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
A training exercise for infantry in the Western Desert. Troops take up positions, repel aircraft (Gloster Gladiator) attacks and finally charge the enemy positions.F01234
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El Alamein, Dabaa wounded & field hospital
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Maker: Military History Section
Australian Army Band playing outdoors. Stretcher bearers and truck outside of Field Hospital tents. Tower, store sheds, platform and railway lines at Dabaa Station with four-wheel railway truck, railw...F07017
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Entry into Syria
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
In June 1941 Damien Parer of the Australian Photographic Unit followed in the path of advancing units of the Allied Force (including the 7th Australian Division) which invaded Syria. Scenes record the...F01099
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Entry into Tripoli
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Coverage of General Montgomery's (General Officer Commanding 8th Army) entry in to Tripoli. These pictures show the final stages of our advances towards Tripoli and our entry into the town this morni...F01834
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2/4 Field Workshop 1942 / R H M Lea
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Maker: Lea, Richard Henry Maclure
2/4 Australian Field Workshop, RAEME at Tobruk and Egypt 1942. Shows wrecked German PzKw III tanks. Close up of anti-tank projectile entry on PzKw II. Long shot of tank exploding. PzKw III wreck burni...F03528
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General Blamey inspects 7th Division
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First part of film deals with exercise of infantry and artillery. Second part is General Blamey's inspection of 12 Battalion, 18th Brigade. Probably May, June, July 1942.F01775
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General Mackay's farewell to the 6th Division at Palestine
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Major General Sir Iven Giffard Mackay inspecting the 6th Australian Division on 6 August 1941 in the Julis area prior to relinquishing his command of the division. After the inspection Major General M...F01103
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Infantry manoeuvres
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Egypt, 2 September 1940. Infantry manoeuvres, Australian infantry are transported by rail and road with equipment.F01041
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Libyan panorama
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
General shots of the Libyan countryside and Italian land settlers. 6 Australian Division engineer units at work in different areas of Libya. Ruins of ancient Greek city of Cirene. A group of 2/11 Aust...F01072
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Machine gun carrier: Darwin manoeuvres
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Maker: Unknown
Machine gun carriers manoeuvre through bush and light scrub around Darwin.F01107
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Major E T Fulton's home movies of army service in Middle East with the 2/1 Field Regiment AIF and in New Guinea
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Maker: Fulton, Edward Thomas Whyte
City march 6 Division the first troops to leave Australia. This scene was taken by Dr Mack. Jerusalem the Garden of Gethsemane taken on the first leave in the Middle East. 2/ 1 field Regiment training...F00448
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Malayan material
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Maker: Edwards, Reg J Nichols, Melmer Frank Department of Information
Activities of Australian troops before the fall of Singapore. The visit of Senator H S Foll, Minister for Information and others to Singapore. The opening of the Anzac Club and general views of the cl...F01157
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Malayan moments
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Maker: Lewis, Wallace Chaurel Wall, Donald
Troops marching 2/20 Battalion Mersing, late 1941. Leaders following NX35012 Captain (Capt) R J D Richardson D Coy Serebam area. Battalion on route march. Lieutenant Stanistreet. Sgt Cullen. Sgt Berth...F03436
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Munitions and armaments parade, Melbourne, 26 November 1942
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Maker: Unknown
Coverage of a parade of Australian made armaments and munitions held in Melbourne. The film shows in long shot from a high angle the following armaments passing the fixed camera position; 3.7 inch Ant...F04716
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[RAAF Baltimores] (Africa)
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Maker: RAF Film Unit
Martin Baltimore aircraft of an unidentified RAF squadron (possibly No 454 Squadron RAAF) taxing at Gambut (?) airfield North Africa. Baltimores taking off. British troops in tropical kit board a RAF ...F02640
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Radio in battle
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A short item by the Ministry of Information on the role of radio in warfare. Scenes of women workers at a radio factory, temperature, water and movement tests. Radio use by Royal Navy (Destroyer H63),...F01888
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Salvage under shell fire
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
El Alamein, 1942. Recovery team salvages a damaged Bren carrier from mine field under mortar fire.F01228
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Singapore and burning tanks
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Singapore firemen fighting fires caused by Japanese bombing raid. Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go light tanks knocked out by Australian anti tank gunners of the 2/4th Anti-Tank Regiment at a road block at Bakr...F01171
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Steel cavalry
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The personnel of these regiments was mostly drawn from the Light Horse Regiments and in this theatre of war where the horse was outlived of its usefulness, the regiments have changed over to steeds of...F01826
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6th Division Cavalry, Darwin
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Welcome home by the GOC Major-General Herring to his men of the 6th Division Cavalry Regiment. These men fought in Libya and Syria and at one stage were using captured Vichy French tanks. Their job if...F01771
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The Army lays the rails
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A British Ministry of Information film on railway companies of the Corps of Royal Engineers showing training, equipment and application of methods pertaining to all sections of railway maintenance and...F01648
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[The bombing of Darwin and aftermath February-March 1942]
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Maker: Sheldon-Collins, Francis
Darwin, Northern Territory, February - March 1942. The scenes (although not in chronological sequence) were taken after the first raid on 19 February and before the second in Mitchell Street from outs...F04775
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The drive on Beirut
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
The official film taken by war photographers of the drive on Beirut by the Australian 7th Division, beginning from Haifa during the Syrian campaign.F01540
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Tobruk, 30th July to 22nd October
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Maker: Monro, Ronald Keith
The day by day story of Tobruk. The leisure hours, the bombing and the wounded. Scenes of bomb damaged Tobruk. Sunken ships in Tobruk harbour. The wrecked Insect Class gunboat HMS Lady Bird and anti-a...F07001
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Training and experimental work of the 4th Armoured Brigade at Southport, Queensland
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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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Turkish frontier
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
The 7th Australian Division Cavalry Regiment exercising and on patrol near Turkish border. The 2/10th Infantry Battalion provides border patrols. A Free French outpost. Australian soldiers sightseeing...F01124
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Universal carrier Mk I: general description.
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A military training film produced for the Directorate of Army Kinematography by the Nuffield Organization Cine Department. This film, using animated diagrams, illustrates the construction of the Unive...F05268