The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Algeria. c. 1943. A Rugby football match between members of No. 458 (Wellington) Squadron RAAF, operating from a base in Algeria, and a selected team from RAF units is in progress. The RAAF team under the guidance of coach Flying Officer L. Simpson, who before the war was a prominent Rugby Union player at Toowoomba, Qld, won the game by several points. Note the buildings in the background.
Algeria. c. 1943. A Rugby football match between members of No. 458 (Wellington) Squadron RAAF, operating from a base in Algeria, and a selected team from RAF units is in progress. The RAAF team under
Algeria. c. 1943. A Rugby football match between members of No. 458 (Wellington) Squadron RAAF, operating from a base in Algeria, and a selected team from RAF units is in progress. The RAAF team under
Bone, Algeria. c. 1943. Line-up of the RAAF rugby union football team which played a hard fought game at Bone against another RAAF team.
Bone, Algeria. c. 1943. Group portrait of a team of RAAF airmen who played a game of rugby union football at Bone.
Hiro, Japan. 1952-12-13. A line out in the Rugby Union match at the Rugby Union Football ground between Hiroshima and Headquarters Australian Army Component. The match, the first in which Japanese pla
Bone, Algeria. c. 1943. Throw in, and players of the two RAAF teams are on their toes. The rugby union football match was played on an oval at Bone near the airfield from which the Australian squadron
