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Anzacs arrive in Greece
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
In March 1941 the Australian 6th Division embarked in the Middle East for Greece. This film covers troops on board troopships waiting to disembark in Greece. Greek villages and sightseeing in Athens. ...F01074
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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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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 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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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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Conference between 6 Australian Division and Japanese officers
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Maker: Eastman, David Tennant Gaery
At 1400 hours on 22nd August 1945, Staff Officers of HQ 6th Australian Division and ATIS Translator boarded a Motor Launch at Cape Wom to proceed to Kairiru Island to hold a conference with Captain No...F07240
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Conference held at Cape Wom with Japanese officers
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Maker: Eastman, David Tennant Gaery
Conference between Staff Officers, 6th Australian Division and Lieutenant General Adachi, Commander 18 Japanese Army, held in the Battle Room at HQ 6th Australian Division, to discuss arrangements for...F07244
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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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[Departure of AIF troops from Melbourne]
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Filmed by one of Australia's premier cinematographers, Damien Parer, this unedited film in two parts shows the departure of 6th Division troops from Melbourne beginning in 1939. note that audio is ext...F01001
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Derna action, 1941
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
On 23 January 1941, members of the Australian 6th Division started their advance towards Derna. On 30 January, 1941, an Australian patrol entered Derna.F01064
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6 Division volunteers leaves Wewak for BCOF in Japan
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Maker: Cartledge, Ronald Selby
Members of 6th Australian Division who volunteered for service with the BCOF, Japan, left Wewak on 26 October 1945, in the troopship MV Manoora. Shows two soldiers carrying placard "Tokyo here we come...F07440
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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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Finding Japanese burial shrine
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Maker: Anderson, Alan Frederick
When troops began to burn a Japanese hut near the village of Kreer, during the 6th Division's advance on Wewak, the floor collapsed and they discovered that it was a shrine in which were several thous...F01630
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General Blamey arrives in Tiberias
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
General Sir Thomas Blamey with Brigadier S F Rowell, GSO 1 Australian Corps and Captain J Wilmoth ADC arrived at Tiberias by Imperial Airways Empire Flying Boat on 20 June 1940. General Blamey was met...F01039
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General Blamey, Major-General Wordsworth & 2/5 Aust. Inf. Bn, 6 Division disembarking at Aitape
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Maker: Kinna, Darrell
Major General (Maj Gen) Robert Harley Wordsworth CBE, British Army, leaving C-47 Dakota aircraft at Aitape and being greeted by General Staff Officer 1 (GSO 1) 6th Australian Division, Lieutenant Colo...F07179
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General Blamey reviews 6 Division at Wewak
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Maker: Eastman, David Tennant Gaery
On his arrival at Boram in the first Liberator aircraft to land on the airstrip since its completion, the Commander in Chief, AMF, General Sir Thomas A Blamey GBE KCB CMG DSO ED, was met by the Genera...F07386
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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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General O'Connor visits 6 Australian Division Headquarters
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
General Officer Commanding (GOC) XIII Corps, Lieutenant General Sir Richard O'Connor, accompanied by Brigadier Harding, called at 6 Australian Division HQ to farewell Major General I G Mackay and seni...F01068
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Gracie Fields concert at 6 Australian Division HQ Wewak
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Maker: Eastman, David Tennant Gaery
On arrival at Wewak airstrip from Madang, where she had given a concert the previous day, Miss Fields and her party were mobbed by diggers who had come down to the strip to catch a glimpse of them. Sh...F07241
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Greece
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
General coverage of heavy military traffic on mountain roads during British retreat in Greece.F01085
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Inspection by HQ 6 Australian Division officers of Japanese hospital on Muschu Island
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Maker: Eastman, David Tennant Gaery
On 1 October 1945, Lieutenant General Yoshihara, Chief of the General Staff, 18 Japanese Army and Commander of the Japanese compound on Muschu was ordered to improve the hospital site, lay paths and g...F07376
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Interrogation of suspected war criminals
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Maker: Eastman, David Tennant Gaery
On 19 October 1945, at HQ 6 Australian Division, began the preliminary interrogation of suspected or accused Japanese war criminals. The first Japanese to be questioned is a Lieutenant Tazaki who is a...F07377
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Loading transport for 6th Division embarkation
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Maker: Kinna, Darrell
Soldiers on Cairns wharf, QLD, prepare jeeps and motor vehicles of the 6 Division for loading into ship. Shots of vehicles being hoisted onto ship.F07142
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Menzies tour, Middle East and Palestine
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank) Parer, Damien Peter Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
The Australian Prime Minister Mr Robert Gordon Menzies toured the Middle East and Palestine visiting Australian sailors, soldiers and airmen at Jerusalem (at the Australian Soldiers Club), Julis, Beit...F01065
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2nd AIF entraining, Showground Station Flemington
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
A draft of recruits for the 6th Australian Division entraining at the Showground Railway Station, Flemington, for Puckapunyal Camp near Seymour, Victoria.F01117
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Race meeting at Barbara Camp
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Captain Eugene Gorman KC, The Commissioner for the Australian Comforts Fund and a prominent racing man in Australia, organised a race meeting in Palestine at Barbara Camp which took place just before ...F01042
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Salisbury Plains (AIF in England)
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Maker: Unknown
Part of the 6th Australian Division, AIF in England, at Salisbury Plain. Shows Australians marching in single file along a village path, watched by locals who hand pears to the troops. Convoy of motor...F01088
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1. Ship wrecked on NSW coast 2. General Blamey reviews famous 6th Division 3. Gary Cooper arrives in Australia. (News From Home No. 64)
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Extracts from News From Home newsreel compile No. 64. (1 min 15 sec) A nine thousand ton ship is wrecked on the coast of Australia, the AIF are called out to do all they can to rescue the seamen, and ...F00757
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1st advance in Western Desert
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Australian soldiers advance through heavy sand and storm. Scenes of Italian POW's and captured equipment.F01233
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6th Australian Division Education Section
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Maker: Kinna, Darrell
Brief coverage of "living off the land" demonstration. Army corporal holding two live snakes. Rock Python coiled on ground at his feet. With snake coiled around his soldiers, corporal picks up two sna...F07049
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6th Division march through Sydney and Melbourne
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Maker: Military History Section
Return of the 6th Division to Australia. The 2/1st Field Regiment AIF took part in Sydney march. Identified: Governor General Lord Gowrie VC GCMG CG DSO PC; Sir Thomas A Blamey GBE KCB CMG DSO ED; th...F07032
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6th Division troops arrive at Aitape
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Maker: Kinna, Darrell
Aitape Harbour, showing ships at anchor. Troops embarking onto Landing Craft, Mechanised (LCM) barges. Motor trucks reversing off barges and onto beach. DUKWs loaded with stores moving down beach. Tro...F07178
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Tobruk action 1941
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
The Tobruk area in which the British Forces had imprisoned a garrison of 25,000 troops was protected by two formidable rings of defence, an outer perimeter of stone fortifications protected by mines, ...F01063
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Trainees, 2nd AIF, Melbourne Showground
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Maker: Department of Information
Trainees working, exercising, washing, relaxing, playing cards at Melbourne Showground.F01112
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Training for the complexities of war: an interview with Sir David Osborne Hay CBE, DSO, MBE (Mil). (In retrospect)
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Maker: Training Technology Centre Australian Army
The subject selected for this Oral history is Sir David Hay CBE, DSO, MBE (Mil) whose career spanned the full period of the Second World War. As such he is well qualified to comment on the subject of ...F04845
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Troops leave Wewak on HMS Implacable
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Maker: Cartledge, Ronald Selby
Some two thousand two hundred men of 6 Australian Division embarked on HMS Implacable lying offshore in Wewak Harbour. All troops appear happy to be going home and welcomed the news that they would be...F07385
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War crimes trial of Lieutenant Tazaki
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Maker: Cartledge, Ronald Selby
On 30 November 1945 at 6 Australian Division HQ, Wewak, a Military Court tried Japanese war criminal Lieutenant Tazaki and passed the death sentence. Tazaki was charged with the mutilation of the dead...F07379
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Wewak surrender ceremonies
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Maker: Eastman, David Tennant Gaery
Activities of Japanese personnel on Muschu Island prior to surrender ceremony held on Cape Wom Airstrip, Wewak, 13th September 1945. Also surrender ceremony held at 1000 hours on airstrip at Wewak, 13...F07243