The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The desert cookhouse of No. 3 Squadron RAAF at El Adem, Libya. Ground crews, truck drivers and wireless operators queue up for their midday meal of bully beef, biscuits and a half mug of tea. At the far left is the cookhouse tender and a water wagon.
Troop orderlies are issuing rations of bully beef, biscuits, tea, sugar and salt to the section orderlies, Beersheba, 1930. This is eighth in a series of eight paintings accompanying the Palestine dio
El Agheila, Cyrenaica, Libya. 7 December 1942. Bully beef, beans and biscuit seem to be on the menu. A corporal sits on a rock to eat his meal in the desert. All the time the Allied armies have been a
Tan-coloured circular piece from a parachute. Section of parachute worn by Sergeant John Wood as sun protection while walking through the desert in Libya and Egypt in 1942. On the night of 7/8 Octo
Steel No. 210 fuze case, painted black on the exterior. A seam runs up one side. The cartridge is slightly misshappen and some of the paint is scratched off, especially around the top. The base is sta
