An image of troops of the NZ 24 Battalion in North Africa.
Kiwi filmmaker Gaylene Preston has completed a specially commissioned short film to honour the 24 Battalion for Anzac Day.
The 12-minute film, which features a selection of rarely seen archival footage, will be projected continuously for three hours across the northern facade of the Auckland War
Memorial Museum this weekend.
It captures the Battalion's departure, campaigns in North Africa and Italy and the faces of the young men that went to war to fight for their country.
Preston says watching the film brings home how unusual the experience must have been for the young men, who were transported from their life here to another world in the midst of a war.
"This film causes us to relook at the images of war that we've become so familiar with. Looking at the young faces of the men of the 24 Battalion, panning over the footage of the tanks rolling in, you can't help but wonder which of these boys came back," says Preston.
