In Command - General Blamey To Lead Australians 1940

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Australian troops on parade during World War Two.
Description

Full title reads: "In Command - General Blamey to lead Australian Forces".

Australia.

MS General Blamey on horseback inspecting troops at a camp in Ingleburg, New South Wales, Australia.

LS Statue of Remembrance in Sydney. VS of Australian troops parading through Sydney with cut-ins of people lining road waving. Various shots of soldiers.
Tags
- Second
- World
- War
- wars
- military
- inspections
- army
- Ingleburg
- New
- South
- Wales
- Australians
- personalities
- armed
- forces
- General
- Blamey
- Sydney
- parades
- soldiers
- parades
Data

Film ID:

1033.42

Media URN:

20244

Group:

Pathe newsreels

Archive:

British Pathé

Issue Date:

29/01/1940

Sound:

Sound

HD Format:

Available on request

Stock:

Black & White

Duration:

00:00:34:00

Time in/Out:

01:48:14:00 / 01:48:48:00

Canister:

40/9

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