The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The Americans have built themselves a chapel in the woods. They call it the Jungle Chapel, but Father Anthony Carrol calls it the Cathedral In The Palms. The men built it in one week but found that it was too small so they took another week and enlarged it. The Australians also attend mass here. Every Sunday at 8.45 the men roll up from other camps as well as the camp the chapel is built in. Men have their breakfast first then attend mass and communion and confessions after mass.
A new Anzac Chapel was dedicated at the Australian Logistic Support Base, Vung Tau, Vietnam, last week. More than 70 soldiers, nurses and Red Cross workers were inside the chapel when the Base Command
RAF ground crews work a seven day week, but they still have an opportunity for worship. Every Sunday the padre comes to the airfield in a lorry and conducts divine service. His congregation is made up
Eight illustrious months at Tobruk and a highly successful campaign amid the wastes of Alamein entitled the men of the AIF to this distinction [i.e as "Conquerors of the desert"]. This film gives a fe
JACQUINOT BAY, NEW BRITAIN. 1945-06-10. YACHTS OF THE ROYAL PACIFIC YACHT CLUB, A CLUB FORMED BY MEN AND OFFICERS IN HEADQUARTERS 5 DIVISION AREA, WHO HAVE BUILT THEIR OWN CRAFT FROM ODDS AND ENDS. TH
Mrs MacDonald went to the Footscray Ammunition factory when the war broke out. She describes it as working long hours, tiring, dirty, boring, depressing, cold, unhealthy, night shifts but reasonable p
Situated in the heart of Central Australia is the largest workshops of its kind in the army for front line repairs. Major Stokes the Commanding Officer recently returned from the Middle East and Capta
