Australians at Battle Stations

Series

Series Name
Pathe Gazette

Issue

Issue No.
42/27
Date Released
2 Apr 1942
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1King and Queen with the RAF
  2. 2Action Demand
  3. 3Newsbriefs
  4. 4Australians at Battle Stations

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 4
Summary
Throughout Australia the fear of invasion which has long been spoken about has now becomes a reality and defence is the problem to be coped with. With a coastline of seven thousand miles this isn’t easy. Scenes in Victoria, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney as well as along the coast, show Defence Corps hard at work sandbagging buildings, digging trenches and putting up barbed wire defences.
Keywords
Civil defence
Locations
Melbourne; Sydney; Brisbane; Victoria; New South Wales; Queensland
Length of story (in feet)
328
Story extras:
Film clip
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