The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
WESTERN DESERT - AN ITALIAN PRISONER TURNS OUT HIS POCKETS & DISCLOSED NOTHING.... NO WONDER THEY WERE ALL SO GLAD TO HAVE THE CHANCE OF GIVING THEMSELVES UP. (PHOTOGRAPHED BY F. HURLEY).
WESTERN DESERT - ITALIAN PRISONERS TAKEN DURING WESTERN DESERT CAMPAIGN DID NOT SEEM TO REGRET THEIR CAPATIVITY & WERE APPARENTLY IN A CHEEFUL FRAME OF MIND. THEIR ONLY REGRET - THEY LEFT THEIR CIGARE
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 - THE THIRTEENTH PROVED THIS IT'S LUCKY DAY FOR IT WASN'T MANY OF THE ENEMY WHO HAD FORTUNE TO BE CAPTURED BY SO INOFFENSIVE A UNIT AS THE PHOTO UNIT. DRIVER PAMBO MORRISON ON GUARD RON
Western Desert, North Africa. 26 November 1941. Italian (left) and German pilots captured after their aircraft were destroyed by British fighters during the second British Libyan offensive - Operation
TUMMAR WEST - AS TIRED AS TWO MULES. THIS ITALIAN AND HIS MULE DECIDED THAT THE WAR WAS NO GOOD SO TRECKED INTO THE BRITISH LINES AND GAVE HIMSELF UP. (PHOTOGRAPHED BY F. HURLEY).
SIDI BARRANI - AMONG THE NAVAL RATINGS THAT CAME ASHORE AFTER THE FALL OF BARRANI WERE JOE ROBINSON A.B. LEADING SEAMAN KILLINGBACK & BILL SLEATH A.B. THEY WERE GLAD TO GET ASHORE FOR A FEW HOURS BUT
