Group photograph of General Sir Henry Rawlinson and staff. The General briefing his staff and scenes around Australian artillery lines. [AWM F00010]
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[On a title card a swirly border featuring the Rising Sun Badge surrounds the words "Australian Topical Events No. 1."
Title card: General Sir Henry Rawlinson and Staff.
On a text card a plain border surrounds the words "The Commander and his Major Generals".
A dignified man with a neat moustache sits on a chair. Behind him, a line of five officers stand on or near a wooden walkway. Smiling for the camera, General Sir Henry Rawlinson and some of the officers hold sticks. They move away, revealing the train carriage behind them.
Text card: The Fourth Army Commander in his Office, informing his Staff of the recent advances.
General Sir Henry Rawlinson moves divider callipers across a wall map of Europe. He maintains the same distance between the callipers' two pointed legs. He glances at the camera, nods and smiles.
Title card: In and Around Australian Artillery Lines.
Text card: A typical Australian Shell Dump.
Soldiers move large metal artillery shells from neat piles. Another soldier tosses equipment from piled crates to another soldier.
Text card: Loading limbers with 18 pounders and rushing them up to the guns.
In a field, piled crates with open sides form improvised shelves. Soldiers take shells from the crates and pass them down a line to a cart. On the cart, the shells are placed in separate compartments in a rack. Standing by the team of four horses, a man taps a stick. Beyond the horses, vehicles stand in a line.
Text card: Brigade Artillery Wagon Lines.
A four-horse team stands hitched a loaded cart. Soldiers and equipment dot the field. A truck trundles along a distant road. Small carts stand in rows. Near a pup tent a soldier in his shirt sleeves wipes his hands. The pup tent is a canvas sheet over a long beam. On the edge of the field, houses are nestled in among trees.
Text card: Artillerymen lining up for dinner, the cookhouse being a little village house behind their guns.
Soldiers holding plates and tins queue outside a brick building. Food is doled out from a doorway and from a smoking metal drum outside the door. Cloth hangs over the entrance of a pup tent. Sitting out the front, soldiers eat.
Title card: Their dumb friends having a rest, and grazing in the lines.
Dark horses graze in a large grassy field. Beyond the field buildings stand among trees.
The Rising Sun badge appears in white on a black screen. A semicircle of sword and bayonet blades arches over a crown. Below, two curved scrolls read "Australian Commonwealth Military Forces".]