Description: I. 36 New Zealand women, volunteer Red Cross workers at a US Navy hospital in Auckland, are presented with badges marking 18 months service by an assistant field-director of the American Red Cross, Clare Lustman (?). After the ceremony the 'grey ladies' return to their work, distributing cigarettes and candy to patients, mending clothes, writing letters, library trolley. II. American Memorial Day. In a ceremony at the Wellington Cenotaph, wreaths are laid by representatives of the New Zealand government (supply minister DG Sullivan, acting PM in Fraser's absence) and of the American, New Zealand and Allied Services. The wreaths are later laid on the graves at a small US cemetery (film of the US cemetery on Guadalcanal also included). Report closes with excerpt of speech in Wellington by Warren H Atherton, a National Commander of the American Legion.
Production Details: New Zealand National Film Unit (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Atherton, Warren H (person)
Lustman, Clare (person)
Sullivan, D G (person)
National Legion, United States (regiment/service)
American Red Cross (regiment/service)
Keywords: casualties, United States dead - graves, formal (object name)
ceremonies, New Zealand - event-related: memorial service (object name)
ceremonies, New Zealand - event-related: investiture (object name)
ceremonies, United States - event-related: Memorial Day, Wellington (object name)
ceremonies, United States - event-related: investiture (object name)
delegations, New Zealand international - political (object name)
medical, United States naval - long term: hospital (object name)
New Zealand & Auckland <US Navy hospital> (geography)
New Zealand & Wellington <Cenotaph> (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: 517 ft; Running time: 5 mins
