1943 TIMOR / AUSTRALIA: Second World War: 'The Epic of Timor Island'

Date: 22nd March 1943

Location: TIMOR / DARWIN, AUSTRALIA

Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)

SLATE INFORMATION: The Epic of Timor Island

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Scenic dusk shot of Timor Island from the sea, sunset / Native islander along / Group of Australian men sitting around fire cooking deer meat

GRAPHIC Map showing Timor on coast of Australia

Venison being cooked / Australian soldiers in tent, eating meal / Soldiers and native islanders looking at live crocodile tied on pole / Australian man with beard smoking pipe / PAN group of 8 soldiers looking skywards / Japanese plane flying overhead / Australian troops along through jungle / Troops firing rifles thru bushes at Japanese enemy troops / Aussies running back after firing rifles / Timorese men carrying back wounded soldier, laying him down in camp / Injured soldier sat on ground at camp with others

Three Australian soldiers making wireless set (radio transmitter), using soldering iron, soldering piece onto set, fixing coils on set / Troops gathered around radio set trying to get in touch with mainland

GRAPHIC Map showing wireless waves from Timor to Darwin - Mainland

AUSTRALIA: Darwin:

Soldiers at mainland wireless station receiving signal/ Message written down "TO PROVE YOUR IDENTITY GIVE CHRISTIAN NAME OF JACK SERGENT'S WIFE" / Mainland wireless operator receiving reply and writing name down

TIMOR:

Men along thru jungle arriving with supplies / Letters handed out to troops at army camp / Australian man shaving off beard with razor / People counting money and giving to islanders who have helped Australian army / Islanders preparing for raid on village with Australian troops and ponies / Various of trek along through jungle / Australian troops in jungle taking up firing positions / Soldier firing machine gun / Timorese men rushing into enemy village with flaming sticks, throwing flaming stick into hut / Local islanders with spears and soldiers rushing into burning village / Men throwing spears into cone shaped hut / Fighters setting light to big hut / Various of locals and Australian troops along thru burning village / Hut on fire

Prisoners from enemy village escorted back to army camp / Major Jeff Laidlaw talking to N.C.Os (Laidlaw is troops' commander and is known to his men because of his huge proportions as "THE BULL." / Laidlaw shaking hands with N.C.Os / Laidlaw / Man with beard smoking pipe / Various of Australian troops at camp / Silhouetted shot Australian soldier and sunset

Military - Active; World War II in the Far East

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