North stand of Twickenham Stadium in the UK, filled with supplies. Credit World Rugby Museum, Twickenham. 

Touring Wallaby team from 1939 seated on deck chairs on their journey to the United Kingdom.

Still from a home movie by W.F. Matthews.   

News article titled 'On Way to Big Games' from Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 - 1954) 30 July 1939.

News article titled 'Easy Life for Touring Team' from The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 - 1954) 26 July 1939.

News article titled 'Australian Rugby Union Wallabies Leave To-day' from The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld : 1872 - 1947) 21 July 1939.

Australian Rugby Union Team, 1939. Credit: World Rugby Museum, Twickenham.

Wallabies signatures from Australian Rugby Union Team 1939. Credit: World Rugby Museum, Twickenham.

There is no audible ceremony on Menzies’s arrival in the room, just a short introduction by another speaker. Menzies settles at the microphone and we hear a faint rustle of his papers.

Queenie Ashton (as Lady Isabel) and Ronald Morse (as Francis Levison) in the 1939 radio serial East Lynne.

Photo from the A.W.A. Radio Electric Works (Ashfield) Children's Christmas Party, 1939.