The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
WESTERN DESERT - ABOUT 4,000 LIBYAN PRISONERS CAPTURED BY 4TH DIVISION. INDIAN ON 1ST DAY OF THE "PUSH", BEING LOOKED AFTER BY BRITISH TOMMIES. AFTER BEING WITHOUT WATER FOR 3 DAYS, AN OLD ROMAN WELL FROM WHICH PLENTY OF WATER COULD BE DRAWN. THE GUARDS HAD A BUSY TIME WATERING THEM IN TWENTIES. (PHOTOGRAPHED BY F. HURLEY).
WESTERN DESERT - 3000 LIBYAN PRISONERS TAKEN IN THE 1ST FEW HOURS OF BATTLE WERE GLAD TO TURN IN. THEY FOUND A FAIRY GODMOTHER IN A BR. SERGEANT WHO LOOKED AFTER THEM UNTIL THEY COULD BE CONVOYED TO M
WESTERN DESERT - MAN'S HUMANITY TO MAN. CAPT. G.F. ADYE CURRAN OF THE INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE ATTENDS TO A VERY SICK LOOKING LIBYAN PRISONER. THE M.O. HAS BEEN DOING THIS FOR 3 DAYS & NIGHTS WITHOUT RE
SYRIA. TROOPS OF THE CHESHIRE YEOMANRY REGIMENT, WHO WERE ATTACHED TO THE AUST. FORCES DURING THE SYRIAN CAMPAIGN, WATERING THEIR HORSES AT AN OLD ROMAN WELL. (NEGATIVE BY F. HURLEY).
TUMMAR - THE ITALIANS DIDN'T SEEM TO MIND BEING PRISONERS BUT THEY DID WANT CIGARETTES BADLY. FORTUNATELY MOST OF THE BRITISH TOMMIES HAD SOUVENIRED PLENTY OF ITALIAN "FAGS" AND SO THERE WAS NO SHORTA
NIBEIWA - THE TREMENDOUS NUMBER OF PRISONERS TAKEN DURING THE PUSH AGAINST ITALIANS CREATED THE SERIOUS PROBLEM OF FEEDING THEM. ALTHOUGH APPARENTLY WELL-FED THE ITALIANS WERE PRETTY HUNGRY AFTER THE
HILEQUAT - LIBYAN PRISONERS IN THE SERVICE OF THE ITALIANS BEING FED BY THEIR BRITISH CAPTORS AND GETTING THEIR APPARENTLY 1ST MEAL FOR DAYS. IN CONTRACT TO ITALIAN TROOPS THESE NATIVES WERE ILL CLOTH
