The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
BARRACA AREA, LIBYA, 1941-04-04. THE VALLEY IN WHICH THE 26TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS IS SITUATED. AN INTELLIGENCE TRUCK CAN BE SEEN IN THE RIGHT FOREGROUND. THE ROAD TO BARCE IS SEEN BEHIND A ROW OF TREES IN THE RIGHT MIDDLE DISTANCE. IN THE LEFT BACKGROUND IS THE PLAIN ON WHICH BARCE IS SITUATED. THE 2/48TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION AND NO.1 COMPANY, 2/23RD AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION WERE HOLDING HIGH GROUND COVERED WITH TREES IN THE LEFT MIDDLE DISTANCE. VX43893 LIEUTENANT G.H. BLAND, 26TH AUSTRALIAN ANTI-TANK COMPANY WAS HOLDING THE PASS WITH TWO ITALIAN 47 MM. ANTI-TANK GUNS, CAPTURED AT TOBRUK AND MOUNTED ON THE BACKS OF TWO TRUCKS, WHILE THE NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS WERE HOLDING THE HIGH GROUND TO THE RIGHT.
VX48227 Driver Charles Timothy Jury, Headquarters, 26th Australian Infantry Brigade, inspecting one of the anti-tank ditches near Tobruk, Post R5, in the 26th Australian Infantry Brigade area. Foremo
HANSA BAY AREA, NEW GUINEA. 1944-09-05. THE CAMP SITE OF NO. 8 PLATOON, A COMPANY 25TH INFANTRY BATTALION SITUATED ON VERY HIGH GROUND. THE MOUTH OF THE SEKULA RIVER CAN BE SEEN IN THE DISTANCE. IDENT
The main city axis, seen from Mount Ainslie, looking across the plantings which later became Anzac Parade towards Parliament House (the large white building centre right) and Capital Hill. The propose
An anti-tank ditch in the 2/48th Australian Infantry Battalion area, near Tobruk, to the east of the El Adem Road. QX6167 Lieutenant William Spencer Beaney, Signals Officer, 9th Australian Division,
Headquarters, 26th Australian Infantry Brigade, situated in a wadi immediately to the south of the Derna Road. The tent in the foreground is the actual Headquarters. The Signals Office is immediatel
In the distance an Australian military camp with tents and guns are arranged into lines. In the middle ground, a mule drawn medical cart crosses the desert. In the foreground, camels shelter in the s