YMCA activities in Egypt and Palestine

Places
Accession Number F03438
Collection type Film
Measurement 31 min 46 sec
Object type Home movie
Physical description 16mm/b&w/silent
Maker Jones, Leonard John
Place made British Mandate of Palestine: Palestine, Egypt
Date made late 1942-early 1943
Access Open
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

El Alamein War Cemetery showing close ups of the graves of TX4065 Private Murray Buxton 2/1 Australian Field Workshop and TX4723 Corporal Harold Johnson 2/3 Australian Field Company. Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) sign Australian troops line up at the tea urn. Pan of Australians drinking tea. Close up of the YMCA sign. Soldier sitting in his tent writing a letter. Soldiers looking at magazines. Making tea in urn. Examples of various warning signs. Sign "If going much further please take one +++" (i.e. a grave marker). Sign "Do you know where you are!" Sign "Hey". Parked YMCA vehicles. A B-25 Mitchell bomber fly over head. YMCA officer talking to troops in bunkers. Arab children. YMCA setting up tea urns. YMCA tents and vehicles at camp. Australian troops on parade. YMCA issuing blankets to troops. Soldier having a haircut. Mess parade. Close up of food served. Troops eating possibly Christmas dinner. YMCA representative poses for camera (Leonard Jones?) German war graves. YMCA representative inspecting wrecked German Me-109 fighter aircraft. Convoy of vehicles advancing. Signpost to Tobruk. Pan of war graves. Pans of Tobruk harbour and ruined buildings. An unmarked grave. Convoy passing road sign "Sollum". German war graves. High angle long shot of coast at Sollum. High angle of road convoy. YMCA vehicle parked near abandoned buildings. YMCA representatives pose for the camera with ruined buildings in the background. Abandoned heavy Italian artillery pieces. Wrecked British Valentine tanks. Various scenes of the city of Jerusalem including the Dome of the Rock and Wailing Wall. Vehicles on the road to the Dead Sea. Various scenes at the Dead Sea resort.

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