The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Shows the Australian troop encampment at Mena near Cairo in the early months of 1915. The film illustrates various branches of the army training and relaxing. There are some excellent scenes of light horse and artillery training. The film is made up of eleven shorts from Pathe Animated Gazette newsreel.
Extract from a Pathé Gazette newsreel on the AIF training in Egypt probably before Gallipoli. Titles: 'AUSTRALIANS IN THE DESERT. A patrol of the Victorian Horse near the Suez Canal'. 'Return to camp
A military training film produced for the Directorate of Army Kinematography by Publicity Films Ltd. This film illustrates the individual duties of 6" Naval coastal gun crew-members as to loading and
A military training film produced for the Directorate of Army Kinematography by Movietone News, July 1942. An introduction to this film shows actual scenes featuring British 16-ton Valentine tank. It
Shows scenes of many branches of the Australian Army in France including artillery action (12 inch howitzers and 18 pounders) and men working, training and relaxing behind the lines. General Birdwood
Opening scene 2nd Lieutenant John Bryden Wells. Nile River scenes. Boulevarde, cars and horse drawn vehicles. Nile showing Egyptian boats [feluccas]. El Montaza Royal Gardens Alexandria. Alexandria st
An amateur film taken by 28925 Flight Sergeant Clair Gordon Rogers while serving in Egypt with the RAAF and on return to Australia in 1946. The first scene is a brief close up of a sign for the RAAF L
