The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
PTE. S. COLLINS WAS THE MOST FAMOUS AUSTRALIAN IN THE WESTERN DESERT FOR ONE GLORIOUS DAY. THIS WAS WHEN WINSTON CHURCHILL PRESENTED HIM WITH ONE OF HIS FAMOUS CIGARS, WHICH HE HAS IN HIS MOUTH HERE. ASKED IF HE WERE GOING TO SMOKE IT, COLLINS REPLIED EMPHATICALLY THAT HE INTENDED TO KEEP IT IN A GLASS CASE AND HAND IT ON AS A FAMILY HEIRLOOM. (NEGATIVE BY HURLEY).
PTE. S. COLLINS WAS THE MOST FAMOUS AUSTRALIAN IN THE WESTERN DESERT FOR ONE GLORIOUS DAY. THIS WAS WHEN WINSTON CHURCHILL PRESENTED HIM WITH ONE OF HIS FAMOUS CIGARS, WHICH HE HAS IN HIS MOUTH HERE.
TUMMAR WEST - THIS TOMMY, FUSILIER VIC HULL, HAS FOUND THE JOB THAT APPEALS TO HIM. VIZ, GUARDING PRISONERS. WHEN ASKED HOW HE WAS ENJOYING THE WAR HE REPLIED.. "IT AIN'T SO BAD .. IT'S SAFER HERE THA
WESTERN DESERT, EGYPT. 1942-08-05. MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL, WITH HIS PERSONAL ATTENDANT (RIGHT) JUST PRIOR TO HIS LEAVING THE EL ALAMEIN BATTLE FRONT WHERE HE HAD BEEN VISITING THE AUSTRALIAN TROOPS IN
Richard G. Casey, Minister of State in the Middle East (left), greets the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, with his signature cigar in his mouth, on his arrival at a desert airfield for his t
Algiers, Algeria. 5 June 1943. The British Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill (cigar in his mouth), visited Algiers on his way home to England from America. He is wearing Wings on his uniform of Air
The Sword of Stalingrad, gift of His Majesty King George VI to the citizens of Stalingrad in token of the homage of the British people, was handed over to Marshal Stalin by Mr Winston Churchill at the
