This rare home movie footage from 1939 features the Australian rugby union team en route to the UK – and a tour that would never take place due to the outbreak of war.

The Australian Rugby Union team, the Wallabies, onbraod the RMS Moolton on the 1939 - 1940 tour of the UK.

Home movie footage from the Australian Rugby Union Tour of 1939 to 1940, filmed onboard the RMS Mooltan.

Hodgson, Windon and another player make themselves useful to a Sister by balling yarn and the team undertake more established drills to maintain their fitness. Some of the men can be seen wear

The Australian Rugby Union Tour stops over in Colombo, Aden and Suez Canal