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LIBYAN DESERT. 1941. AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS FIRING CAPTURED ITALIAN GUNS AND AMMUNITION BACK AT THE ITALIAN AND GERMAN FORCES OUTSIDE TOBRUK. THIS WAS HUMOUROUSLY KNOWN AS THE "BUSH ARTILLERY"; THOSE WORKING THE GUNS WERE NOT TRAINED ARTILLERYMEN AND IN THE MAIN, WERE COOKS, ORDERLIES, DRIVERS ETC., WHO DID IT FOR THE FUN OF IT. THEIR RANGE FINDING WAS NOT ALWAYS FIRST CLASS BUT THEIR CONTRIBUTION ALL HELPED TO HARASS THE ENEMY AND THE EFFECT ON MORALE WAS GOOD.
AT SEA. 1945-11. AUSTRALIAN ARMY AND AIR FORCE PERSONNEL WATCHING A GAME OF FOOTBALL ON THE FLIGHT DECK OF THE BRITISH AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS "IMPLACABLE" IN WHICH MORE THAN 2,000 OF THEM TRAVELLED FROM
LOCATION UNKNOWN. PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN FROM H.M.A.S. "BROOME", 1944, SHOWING H.M.A.S. "ECHUCA" (LEFT) AND ANOTHER CORVETTE MOORED AT ANCHORAGE.
HMAS SYDNEY LEAVING SYDNEY HARBOUR FOR THE LAST TIME, 1975-12.
BAY OF BISCAY. 1943-05-29. SUNDERLAND T9114-E OF NO 461 SQUADRON RAAF, UNDER TOW BY THE FRENCH DESTROYER 'LA COMBATTANTE'. THE AIRCRAFT HAD LANDED TO PICK UP SIXTEEN SURVIVORS FROM TWO OTHER AIRCRAFT
LIBYAN DESERT. 1941. AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS FIRING CAPTURED ITALIAN GUNS AND AMMUNITION BACK AT THE ITALIAN AND GERMAN FORCES OUTSIDE TOBRUK. THIS WAS HUMOUROUSLY KNOWN AS THE "BUSH ARTILLERY", THOSE WOR
TOBRUK, LIBYA. 1941-08-13. A GUNNERS OF THE "BUSH ARTILLERY" SIGHTING HIS GUN. HE IS A MEMBER OF THE GROUP OF INFANTRYMEN OF THE 9TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISION WHO ACT AS GUNNERS AS A "SIDELINE". UNTRAINED A
TOBRUK, LIBYA. 1941-08-13. ONE OF THE GUNS OF THE "BUSH ARTILLERY" IN ACTION. THE "BUSH ARTILLERY" AS IT BECAME TO BE KNOWN, IS A GROUP OF INFANTRYMEN OF THE 9TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISION, WHO, ALTHOUGH NOT
One of the gunners of the “Bush Artillery”, 2/17th Infantry Battalion troops employed as artillerymen, at work on the breech of a captured Italian field gun which was used to fire back to the Italian
Zakariah. At the cookhouse of the drivers of the 2nd Australian Field Artillery Brigade, an unidentified driver cooks a meal while two others look on. The drivers returned to Egypt with the horses w
FORT PEARCE BARRACKS, PORT PHILLIP HEADS, VIC, 1946-04. THIS PANORAMA SHOWS IN THE FOREGROUND THE BARRACKS WHICH DURING THE WAR WERE OCCUPIED BY AUSTRALIAN ARMY WOMEN'S AUXILIARY SERVICE PERSONNEL (AA
