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Aborigines are true soldiers of the King (Cinesound News No. 488)
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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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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 return from Malaya
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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
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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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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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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
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Crusades: AIF in Syria
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Scenes 1 to 24 show Australian soldiers marching through part of Syria to a bivouac area-laying out bedrolls and erecting mosquito nets. Scenes 25 to 36, infantry troops training before leaving Syria ...F01221
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Damascus (Syria)
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Location mood shots of Damascus, bazaars, native vendors, mosque, metal and wood craftsmen and rope makers. Ron Williams Department of Information and an army driver are silhouetted in the foreground ...F01139
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Diggers in town (AIF in England)
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Maker: Unknown
Australian soldiers sightseeing in an English town. Shows town's mayor pointing out places of interest to group of Australian soldiers. General shot of large building. Road and traffic in the foregrou...F01089
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Diggers sing in billets (AIF in England)
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Maker: Unknown
A group of Australian soldiers singing Waltzing Matilda.F01093
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Duke of Gloucester
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Duke of Gloucester inspecting a parade of unidentified Australian soldiers possibly in Great Britain.F01982
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Freedom of Aberfeldy
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Maker: Cooper, Henry Harper, Alan Bland, W S
A Campbell Harper production for the British Ministry of Information. A propaganda film showing an Australian soldier, a New Zealand airman and a Canadian sailor on leave in the village of Aberfeldy, ...F01293
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From the four corners
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Maker: Howard, Leslie
An incident of 1941 involving Private J Johnston of the Black Watch of Canada, Corporal W Atkinson 2nd AIF, Private R Gilbert 2nd NZEF and a passer by played by Leslie Howard. The passer by questions ...F01475
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Gaza cross country race
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Gaza, Palestine. AIF Cross country race run on Sunday 23 November 1941, with three hundred and thirty six entries. The outright winner was Driver Richardson. The course extended over approximately eig...F01144
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Gaza Surf Carnival
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Maker: Department of Information Unknown
The 2nd AIF in Palestine area conducts a Surf Carnival at Gaza Beach. Lieutenant General Sir Thomas A Blamey and Lady Blamey were present. Lady Blamey presents trophies.F01118
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Interservice swimming (Darwin series, 17)
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
On 12 July 1942 an inter-service swimming carnival was held at Berry Springs, Northern Territory. Swimming races, competitive diving and a picnic lunch. A shot of O33 Air Commodore Francis Masson Blad...F01192
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Italian prisoners at Haifa
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Italian prisoners board a train in Haifa under the watchful eyes of Australian soldiers.F01237
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Jack Benny and party arrive in New Guinea
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Maker: Anderson, Alan Frederick
American concert party consisting of Jack Benny, Carol Landis (movie stars), Martha Tilton, June Brunner (singers) and Larry Adler (harmonica virtuoso) arrive in New Guinea and perform for servicemen.F01437
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Life at sea, on transports
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Troops and Army nursing sisters on transports at sea second convoy 1940.F01002
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Lutong oil refinery
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Maker: Driver, Roy
A few shots of the landing at Weston, North East Coast of Brunei Bay and soldiers scouting. Two shots of Indian prisoners of war. They were members of an engineering unit captured at Singapore and wer...F01353
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Marching and Last Post (Syria)
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Syria, 1941. Fill-in shots of Australian troops marching along road and silhoutte of bugler and troops as bugler sounds the Last Post.F01143
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2nd AIF march through Melbourne 24 January 1940
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Maker: Reid, John Thyne
Sir John Reid a keen photographer shot this film of the of the first city march by the 2nd AIF as a piece of history. Shows the 17th Brigade, 6th Division AIF led by Brigadier S G Savige march through...F04676
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New Zealanders and Australians arrive in Egypt
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Arrival of first convoy from Australia and New Zealand in the Suez Canal. the Right Honourable Anthony Eden, Secretary of the Dominions, Sir Miles Lampson, British Ambassador in Egypt and General Sir ...F01703
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POW's in Thailand
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Maker: Unknown
Shot of Lieutenant Colonel C A McEachern senior officer in Thailand. Lieutenant Colonel C G W Anderson, MC, VC, recipient of the only Australian Victoria Cross in the Malayan campaign. Lieutenant Colo...F01539
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Recruiting talk Brigadier J A Chapman DSO
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Gaza, Palestine. Sound track; Brigadier J A Chapman giving a short commentary on Australian Army activities in the Middle East. Item intended for recruiting material in Australia.F01149
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Recruiting talks
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Camp Deir Sineid, Palestine, October 1941. Recruiting talks by: 1. W/O Grenfell 2. Private Henderson 3. Lieutenant Colonel G G Hayman 4. General Sir Thomas Blamey. Parade inspected by the Commanding O...F01150
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Repatriated Australian POWs from Germany in England
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Maker: Humphries Williams, W
Repatriated Australian POW's in England being rekitted, medically examined and at Red Cross centres. Duchess of Kent at Gowrie House, Eastbourne; opening of Somers House, Brighton, for Australian repa...F01273
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Ruins of Baalbek (Syria)
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Old Roman ruins comprising, in the main, two temples, the Temple of Jupiter and Temple of Baal. Australian soldiers sightseeing. Ron Williams of the Department of Information Photographic Unit examine...F01138
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Salvage Corps (Syria)
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
The 1st Australian Corps Salvage Unit associated with an English Recovery Unit (6th LOC). The combined units being under the command of Australian Lieutenant F J Terry. Vichy French artillery pieces a...F01130
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Salvaging plane from sea
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Shots of German aircraft in surf at edge of beach being salvaged by Australian soldiers.F01231
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Sick diggers return to Melbourne
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Maker: Unknown
Australian and New Zealand soldiers on troopship and disembarking. Personality shots of naval ratings. Face study of Stoker Mechanic C Potts, HMAS Sydney.F01146
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Silk industry (Syria)
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Silk in the raw state being processed by Lebanese into Silk skeins, then woven on hand loom.F01132
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Sons of the Anzacs [1939-1943]
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N Carty, William Montague Driver, Roy Hurley, James Francis (Frank) Murphy, Mervyn R Parer, Damien Peter Finch, Peter Parer, Damien Peter Wilmot, Reginald William Winchester (Chester) Australian War Memorial Bletcher, Neville R Higgins, Arthur E Wilmot, Reginald William Winchester (Chester)
A history of the Australian forces in the Second World War up to 1943, covering the principal campaigns in which they fought and utilising contemporary footage. Includes cinematography by Damien Parer...F00188
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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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The roamings of the Regiment with commentary by Harry Symons
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Maker: Australian War Memorial
Version of F03459 'The roamings of the Regiment' complete with commentary by Harry Symons.F08486
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The siege of Tobruk
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Maker: British Army Army Film Unit
Tobruk, Libya. Siege of Tobruk filmed by British Army Film Unit, story line in commentary. Outlines the events leading up to and during the siege. Includes action shots of the capture of enemy positio...F01469
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Troops arrive at and depart, Fremantle
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Australian soldiers on deck of troopship on arrival of vessel at Fremantle and its departure.F01003
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VE Day beer issue to troops, Morotai
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Maker: McInnes, Geoffrey
By order of the C-in-C and having regard for the stocks to hand, VE Day was marked by the issue of two bottles of beer for the price of one. Shows the arrival of the beer by ship, transporting it to t...F01557