FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

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HNL 1407 : World War I

MS men marching in street wearing civilian clothes, Soldiers on gun carriage with horses, officials taking salute, Large steam ship waved off at wharf (poor quality), WS ship billowing black smoke in open sea, MS navy guns firing from ship, Turkish soldiers lined up at Gallipoli, riding past camera on horses, Turkish soldier in trench, beach at Anzac Cove . AIF. (1914 1918). WWI
Access No. 42683 | 38 secs | 1910s | Sydney, NSW, Australia, Gallipoli, Turkey | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
HA Australian light horse, hundreds of horsemen & horses pulling artillery across desert, MS soldiers on horseback pulling gun carriage, VS horsemen trot down sandhills, VS allies firing artillery (probably British), WS explosion in desert, MS machine gunners, VS Australian Camel Corps walking past camera, some wounded on stretchers, MS camels carrying supplies, WS damaged town - Australians waiting outside (1914 1918). WWI
Access No. 42685 | 1 min 35 secs | 1910s | Middle East, Palestine, Egypt | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
British, Australian & French officers on dais while monk in robes reads from scroll, MS Australian soldiers boil a billy in the desert, Australian Light Horse, MS Australian soldiers walking through town (Jerusalem?), AIF. (1914 1918). WWI
Access No. 42686 | 27 secs | 1910s | Middle East, Jerusalem | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Australian soldiers help refugees move possessions in carts along road in Europe, Australian soldiers picking up their rifles from the side of the road, MS Australian soldiers walking along trench parapet with supplies & rifles slung over their shoulders, MS loading mortar and firing, VS German prisoners of war captured by the Australians, POW eating & looking at camera, Prime Minister William Morris (Billy) Hughes with Australian soldiers in bombed out town, AIF. (1914 1918). WWI
Access No. 42687 | 1 min 7 secs | 1910s | Western Front, France, Belgium | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Australian soldiers with papers walking out of building (Furlough & Railway Warrants .. Accommodation & Travel Enquiries, Australian soldiers sitting around fountain in Trafalgar Square, London, Mules dragging sleds along muddy road on Western Front, being led by soldiers, Australian biplanes at aerodrome pushed out for take off, MS soldier chatting(1914 1918). WWI
Access No. 42689 | 52 secs | 1910s | London, UK, Western Front, Belgium, France | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
WS trenches, MS British soldiers in tin hats moving through trenches, ruined gun dead mules & wagons laying in mud and water along edge of duckboard road, WS naked men wash in canal behind the lines with horses, soldiers pose for photo in front of biplane, showing holes in body of plane. Australian Flying Corp, AIF. (1914 1918). WWI
Access No. 42691 | 36 secs | 1910s | Western Front, Belgium, France | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Australian soldiers taking off army gear during demobilisation, putting in piles, approaching goods train, boarding, soldiers in train Direct to Aussie written on side, shaking hands, MS train moves past camera, soldiers waving from open doors, Queen Mary & King George on podium in London, MS Australian soldiers marching in victory parade, AIF. (1914 1918). WWI
Access No. 42693 | 48 secs | 1910s | Europe, London, UK | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |