Australian Army Public Relations photographs, 'Exercise Nutcracker' and other related material, 1962. This group contains black and white publicity photographs concerning the Australian Army's exercise Nutcracker which was carried out in 1962. The photographs depict equipment and soldiers of differing ranks involved in the variety of activities which occurred during the exercise, including a 50 ton Centurion tank, flagship, boring for water, storing petrol, various leisure activities and setting up camp. Some highly-ranked officials who attended the exercise include the Minister for the Army, Mr J.O. Cramer, the Chief of the General Staff, Major-General J.U.N. Wiltor, the Governor-General Lord De L'Isle, Major-General I.T. Murdoch and the Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald Pollard. Included are some photographs of the presentation of the Freedom of the City upon the Kapookas, Military area in Wagga Wagga, family members admiring medals received at an investiture, and portraits. The series also includes publicity results and some shorthand notes. A vast majority of the photographs have a slip of paper attached, describing the particular activity and usually naming the participants. Each photograph is individually numbered; this was done by National Archives of Australia while the collection resided there before its transfer to the National Library in 1991.

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Containers:
Box 313
Component identifier:
File 18_20
Immediate source of acquisition:
The Bryant Papers were received in two consignments. The first was transferred from the Victorian Regional Office of the National Archives of Australia in November 1991, in accordance with Mrs Bryant's wishes. These papers had been deposited there in 1975. Just over half of them had been assigned the control number MP1803/1. The remainder had been registered into 31 individual record series and held under Commonwealth Record Series control numbers. Further papers at Mrs Bryant's home (in a garage) had been put into cartons by NAA staff in 1991 and brought to the National Archives of Australia on a temporary basis. At the time of transfer to the National Library, NAA staff retained series or parts of series which related to periods when Gordon Bryant was Minister, as well as diaries from 1973 to 1975 and one notebook. In 1992, papers relating to Bryant's post-parliamentary activities were transferred direct from Mrs Bryant's home to the Library. Amongst these cartons was material which had been packed from his office at La Trobe University's School of Economics and Commerce and returned to Mrs Bryant.

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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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