Accession Number | F03825 |
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Collection type | Film |
Measurement | 3 min 4 sec |
Object type | Actuality footage, Television news footage |
Physical description | 16mm/b&w/silent |
Place made | Australia: New South Wales, Wagga Wagga, Kapooka |
Date made | 6 December 1966 |
Access | Open |
Conflict |
Period 1960-1969 Vietnam, 1962-1975 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial![]() |
Opening of Blamey Barracks DPR/TV/529
Wagga Wagga, NSW Tuesday 6 December. Conditions of modern warfare left no time for mistakes or for mobilisation, the Governor of NSW, Sir Roden Cutler said. He was speaking at a marching-out parade of 400 National Service and Regular Army recruits attended by more than 1000 visitors at Kapooka this morning. Later, he officially opened the new 7 million dollar camp, naming it Blamey Barracks to commemorate the late Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey. The camp accommodates the 1st Recruit Training Battalion. Sir Roden said it was easy in time of crisis to rally to the defence of the country, but it was very different to combat the threat to natioanl security when it was not seen so clearly and it was not at Australia's shores... At the unveiling of a plaque naming the new barracks, the Minister for the Army, Mr Malcolm Fraser, said that the new buildings symbolised the new Army... The son of Sir Thomas Blamey, Lieutenant-Colonel T.R. Blamey and Mrs Blamey, were guests at the parade and the official opening ceremony. [written by] Lieut.-Colonel L.B. Swifte
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