The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Western Desert, Egypt. 11 November 1942. Portrait of Air Vice Marshal Arthur Coningham, Air Officer Commanding Western Desert (rubbing his eye), and General B. L. Montgomery (wearing a beret). Working together they have dovetailed the Allied plans and turned it into the offensive which drove Rommel's armies back into Libya in less than two weeks.
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR ALAN CUNNINGHAM, GENERAL OFFICER IN COMMAND OF THE LIBYAN OFFENSIVE, WITH AIR VICE-MARSHAL ARTHUR CONINGHAM, AIR OFFICER COMMANDING IN THE WESTERN DESERT. AT A FORWARD AERODROME
Tripolitania, Libya. 23 January 1943. Air Chief Marshal (ACM) Sir Sholto Douglas KCB MC DFC (left) talking to Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, Air Officer Commanding Western Desert. ACM Douglas
Western Desert, North Africa. c. November 1941. Air Vice Marshal (AVM) Arthur Coningham (centre, arms folded), Air Officer Commanding the Western Desert Air Forces chatting with war correspondents bes
Western Desert, North Africa. 27 November 1941. Air Vice Marshal Arthur Coningham, Air Officer Commanding Western Desert Air Forces confers with his senior officers standing at his trailer at a desert
Western Desert, North Africa. c. 1941. Air Vice Marshal Arthur Coningham, Air Officer Commanding the Western Desert Air Forces (left), issues his orders to an unidentified Group Captain while sitting
Middle East. C. 1942. Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, commander of the Tactical Air Force, is Australian born. Formerly Air Officer Commanding Western Desert, he personally directed the massive
