The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
ERECTING A COLLAPSIBLE SCREEN FOR TALKIES SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA. NOTHING IS APPRECIATED MORE BY TROOPS, ESPECIALLY IN BATTLE AREAS, THAN TALKIES, AND EVEN HEAVY RAIN WILL NOT DRIVE THEM AWAY FROM THE SHOW. THIS JEEP WAS FITTED WITH TALKIE EQUIPMENT BY THE AUSTRALIAN COMFORTS FUND. THE JEEP CAN TRAVEL WHERE LARGER UNITS CANNOT, AND CAN BE FLOWN BY TRANSPORT PLANES TO AREAS WHERE THERE ARE NO ROADS. (NEGATIVE BY BROWN & BAGNALL).
NEW GUINEA. NOTHING IS APPRECIATED MORE BY THE BOYS AT OPERATIONAL BASES BATTLE STATIONS AND FRONT LINE AREAS THAN MOTION PICTURES. THANKS TO THE AUSTRALIAN COMFORTS FUND MOTION PICTURES CAN NOW BE SC
NEW GUINEA. "THERE WILL BE TALKIES TO-NIGHT". THIS STATEMENT NEVER FAILS TO MAKE AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS, ANYWHERE, AND PARTICULARLY IN FORWARD AREAS, SMILE IN ANTICIPATION. THANKS TO THE AUSTRALIAN COMFO
NEW GUINEA. THIS PHOTO SHOWS TALKIE EQUIPMENT BEING FITTED INTO A JEEP WHICH CAN GET TO AREAS WHERE BIGGER UNITS CANNOT. (NEGATIVE BY BROWN & BAGNALL).
Sydney, NSW. c. 1917. Group portrait of workers of the Wireless Comforts Fund Committee on the verandah of the building where they had rooms in the city. Some of the women are holding parcels, one of
With the advent of the rainy season in Korea, the problem of road maintenance becomes acute. Most of the highways through the Commonwealth Division area are laid over the soft soil fo the paddy fields
Take 1. Meaning of the Tet celebration; Tet has been described as a Vietnamese equivalent of New Year, Christmas and Easter all put together; in some villages celebrations would last the entire month