Emma White

Assistant Curator of Photographs, Film and Sound
Japanese workmen wearing gas masks directing jet from a mobile flame-thrower towards a pile of gasoline-soaked debris.

Toxic Island

The messy and painstaking work of cleaning up munitions in the former theatres of WWII

By Emma White

Second World War 1939 - 1945
Preliminary works have just commenced as workmen prepare the site for the construction of the extensions to the AWM main building undertaken between 1968 and 1970.

An early renovation

Ernest Thain’s film shows the construction of two new wings between 1968 - 1971

By Emma White