The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
LEBANON. IN A CAVE NEAR SIDON WHERE BRONZE AGE PRIMITIVES PROBABLY CHANTED THEIR ANCIENT DIRGES, MEN OF THE 6TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISION CAVALRY REST A WHILE AND AMUSE THEMSELVES BY PLAYING MODERN SONG HITS ON A GRAMOPHONE. THEY ARE: CORPORAL P. O'SHEA, TROOPER E. COLE, TROOPER GREENWOOD. (PHOTOGRAPHER: F. HURLEY).
AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS WHO HAVE CONSTITUTED THEMSELVES "KINGS OF THE CASTLE" TAKE POSSESSION OF THIS ANCIENT EDIFICE BUILT BY THE CRUSADERS ON A HILL OVERLOOKING THE ANCIENT CITY. SIDON WAS CAPTURED BY T
This footage was filmed by Trooper Hugh Carlyle who was killed in action on 18 February 1970. Trooper Carlyle never saw these films as they were sent back to Australia for processing. The following de
