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Background of a tradition
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Maker: Carnemolla, John McKeon, B Wasley, Les Wendon, Ron Wood, Frederick Sydney Golsby, Kevin Low, David Eagles, Moneta Killan, Frank
A Movietone production on the 50 year history of the Royal Australian Navy. Shows the launch of the battle cruiser HMAS Australia at Clyde. The arrival of the destroyers Warrago, Parramatta and Yarra...F10067
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Darwin troops depart
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Maker: Movietone News
Movietone News extract 'News Flashes' showing soldiers of the Darwin Mobile Force march through Sydney in tropical gear. Highland society presents force with four sets of bagpipes. Embarkation and se...F01917
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Discharge personnel embark at Lae for Sydney
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Maker: Scale, Clement Stewart
Personnel for discharge from the service embark at Lae, New Guinea on HMAS Duntroon. Scenes on board during trip to Sydney, NSW. Also identified: QX38303 (Q41752) Lieutenant Colin Ian Gladstone Huxley...F07413
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HMAS Sydney comes home (Cinesound news No 485)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound news No 485. Welcome home for HMAS Sydney and her crew, civic welcome and speech by Captain Collins. (See also F01066 Department of Information unedited footage)F01465
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Interview with Dorothy Loughry (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Dorothy Loughry lived in Manly during the war and recalls the changes in the area across the duration of the war. Being a young girl she remembers the air raid drills at school and seeing the convoys...F04092
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[Interview with Doug Skinner (Images of Australia 'Decline and fall')]
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Maker: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Interview with Doug Skinner for the ABC Television programme Images of Australia conducted by Russell Braddon. Doug Skinner talks about war memorials and the Anzac tradition.F00266
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Interview with Irmhild Beinssen (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Irma Beinssen who came to Australia in 1935. She married an Australian of German origin. She discusses her feelings on hearing of the outbreak of war, feelings towards Germans. Her husb...F04018
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Interview with Jack Pollard (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Jack Pollard was a cadet reporter with the Sydney Daily Telegraph. He enlisted as an eighteen year old and describes training and conditions for young soldiers (under 19 years). He describes the Ja...F04028
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Interview with Joyce Batterham (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Joyce Batterham was a member of the Communist Party. She discusses her feelings about the outbreak of war, the banning of the Communist Party, her period in the textiles factories as an organiser, att...F04024
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Interview with Ken Haylings (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Ken Haylings was a school boy during the war and describes his experiences while living in Petersham, Sydney. He describes his mother receiving a telegram with birthday wishes, while neighbours rec...F04033
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Interview with Mary Holmes (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Mary Holmes was active as a worker with the National Emergency Service in the Sydney area during the war. She also began teaching at a private boy's school where previously only male teacher's had...F04026
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Mechanised artillery
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Maker: Movietone News
The 1st Medium Brigade (Artillery) leave Sydney for training in lorries and double decker bases. The guns, 60 Pounders and 6 inch Howitzers follow. Scenes of guns firing.F01916
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1000 men and women jammed on a tiny destroyer
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound newsreel on the embarkation at Sydney of two thousand six hundred Japanese ex-internees and POWs aboard the Daikai Maru for return to Japan. The Daikai Maru's normal accommodation was for th...F10184
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1. News of the week 12 September 1942 2. Comforts Fund benefits when Zeros crash 3. Heroes welcome for gallant 6th Division (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 39)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 39. 1. (24 sec) Perth, WA. WAAAFs march in pouring rain - (52 sec) In Victoria Peggy Glenhill passes medical examination as ten thousandth WAAAF - (36 sec...F00361
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1. 100,000 Pounds damage in big city blaze, Sydney 2. Motion picture industry helps sale of war bonds 3. Women in war 4. Shipping as greatest problem 5. Battle of the Solomons. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 46)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 46. 1. (1 min 9 sec) Sydney, NSW. Big city blaze 2. (1 min 13 sec) 20th Century Fox Film, "Week end in Havana" premiere helps sell war bonds 3. (1 min 48 ...F00368
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[Russian newsreel: Soviet war effort, Australia at war and battle of Stalingrad]
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Russian newsreel with Russian language commentary, items covered: General coverage of civilian war effort - Collective farms in Kaszakstan harvest cotton; Vladivostock and fishing collective; oilwells...F01969
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The Last Post Ceremony commemorating the service of (422822) Flight Sergeant John Downton Whitby, No. 224 Squadron, RAF, Second World War.
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Maker: Australian War Memorial
The Last Post Ceremony is presented in the Commemorative area of the Australian War Memorial each day. The ceremony commemorates more than 102,000 Australians who have given their lives in war and oth...AWM2022.1.1.18
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The Last Post Ceremony commemorating the service of (422714) Flying Officer Edward Berkley Rowell, No. 467 Squadron RAAF, Second World War.
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Maker: Australian War Memorial
The Last Post Ceremony is presented in the Commemorative area of the Australian War Memorial each day. The ceremony commemorates more than 102,000 Australians who have given their lives in war and oth...AWM2022.1.1.30
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The Last Post Ceremony commemorating the service of (NX70578) Major Llonda Holland, 2/3rd Australian hospital ship Centaur, Second World War
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Maker: Australian War Memorial
The Last Post Ceremony is presented in the Commemorative area of the Australian War Memorial each day. The ceremony commemorates more than 102,000 Australians who have given their lives in war and oth...PAFU2015/190.01
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The Last Post Ceremony commemorating the service of (NX68309) Private Alfred William Hawkins, 19th Dental Unit, Second World War.
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Maker: Australian War Memorial
The Last Post Ceremony is presented in the Commemorative area of the Australian War Memorial each day. The ceremony commemorates more than 102,000 Australians who have given their lives in war and oth...AWM2022.1.1.23