Description: I. Men of New Zealand's Pacific Division on Nissan Island parade to receive decorations awarded for recent action: Major Bullen receives DSO, Sergeant Reesby and Corporal Davidson the DCM, Sergeant Newberry the BEM. II. "Washday in the Pacific" Improvised washing facilities: soldiers bathe under improvised showers, boil laundry in old cans over a stove fashioned from a jerrycan. A soldier's relatively successful homemade washing machine, and less successful mangle. III. Army mules on Guadalcanal. A reminder that the Pacific War is "not all men and machines', the mule "still a very useful beast." Film of horses and mules grazing, of a vet dressing an injured foot, of mules with old war wounds (docked ear, tail). The fighting on Guadalcanal is over, but the mules are taken on an exercise march to keep them fit.
Production Details: New Zealand National Film Unit (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Bullen (Major) (person)
Davidson (Corporal) (person)
Newberry (Sergeant) (person)
Reesby (Sergeant) (person)
New Zealand Military Forces, Pacific Div (regiment/service)
Keywords: animals, mammals: mule [casualties] (object name)
ceremonies, New Zealand - event-related: investiture (object name)
society, New Zealand military - hygiene (object name)
Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands (geography)
New Guinea & Nissan Island (geography)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 358 ft; Running time: 4 mins
