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Photograph 043893 Period 1970-1979HMAS SYDNEY LEAVING SYDNEY HARBOUR FOR THE LAST TIME, 1975-12.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
BEIRUT, LEBANON. 1941-09. GENERAL DE VERDILHAC, FORMER DEPUTY COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, VICHY FRENCH FORCES IN SYRIA, WHO HAS BEEN COLLABORATING WITH MAJOR-GENERAL J.I. CHRYSTALL, CBE, MC, ON THE SYRIAN COMMISSION OF CONTROL TO ADMINISTER THE ARMISTICE TERMS, LEFT WITH THE LAST SHIP LOAD OF VICHY TROOPS. PICTURE SHOWS GENERAL DE VERDILHAC INSPECTING A GUARD OF HONOUR MOUNTED BY TROOPS OF THE 6TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISION. MAJOR-GENERAL CHRYSTALL IS WITH THE VICHY GENERAL.
Depicts a group of officers at a table signing the Syrian Armistice at Acre in Palestine, 1941. General Wilson, the commander of British Troops in Palestine and Transjordan is seen at centre, with bal

Depicts a group of officers at a table signing the Syrian Armistice at Acre in Palestine, 1941. General Wilson, the commander of British Troops in Palestine and Transjordan is seen at centre, with bal
GENERAL ANDRE DE VERDILHAC AND OTHER VICHY REPRESENTATIVES ARRIVE TO DISCUSS TERMS OF AN ARMISTICE.

GENERAL ANDRE DE VERDILHAC AND OTHER VICHY FRENCH REPRESENTATIVES ARRIVE TO DISCUSS TERMS OF AN ARMISTICE.

General De Verdilhac and a group of British officers on the Beirut wharf when Vichy troops sailed for France.

Depicts an advanced field dressing station near Damour (which is near Beirut and now located in Lebanon) during the Syrian Campaign. The Syrian Campaign involved Australian troops, mostly from the 7th
