[Macksville welcomes home returned soldiers]

Film opens showing a street march moving towards camera. View moving towards camera showing a horseman wearing a slouch hat leading the welcome home march. Next is the Macksville brass band and flag carrying boy scouts followed by a small contingent of servicemen and women in uniform. Side view showing veterans followed by women, Junior Red Cross girls in nurse's uniforms and school children. Slow motion scene of the marchers moving away from camera. Head of the parade in slow motion. Rear view on right is the Nambucca hotel on the corners of Wallace and Cooper Streets Macksville. Gibbard's Garage at the rear. Police sergeant and Scout Master Jock Love marching with Cubs and Boy Scouts. Corner of Cooper and River Streets showing the old ES&A Bank (timber building). Gathering outside the Star Hotel on River Street showing men drinking beer from jugs and others in the crowd waving United States, British and red Australian flags. Close up of Moss Kent the publican of the Star Hotel dinking beer. Locomotive pulls into Macksville railway station. Returned 8 Division AASC POW NX45518 Corporal (Cpl) Burwood Douglas Gillett with a young woman on each arm poses for camera. The woman on his left is his sister Norma Grant (nee Gillett). An unidentified soldier shakes the hand of an official behind them part of the 'Welcome home' flag can be seen. [This flag is now held at the Macksville and District Museum.] Same official shakes the hand of Cpl Gillett. Another official shakes Cpl Gillett's hand as the first soldier looks on. A third official shakes both soldiers' hands. [Additional information kindly provided by the Macksville and District History Group]