The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
More than 1400 rounds were fired by the 3 inch mortars in support of the night patrols during Operation Buffalo. Here Private L. W. Sourlock of Bassendean, WA, and Lance Corporal R. T. Robinson, prepare ammunition in readiness for another night of patrolling activity. Both have stripped down in the midsummer heat and are working amongst empty ammunition boxes in the front line defensive line held by the Battalion.
Unidentified members of the 3 Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) mortar platoon clearing emtpy ammunition containers from the more than 1400 3inch rounds fired in support of the night patr
Unidentified members of the mortar platoon of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), protect their ears from the blast as a 3 inch mortar fires on enemy positions. Note the covered r
Members of the 170th Independent Mortar Battery Royal Artillery prepare to turn away and block their ears, as a soldier (left) loads and fires a 4.2 inch mortar. He is standing on metal mortar bomb b
Soldiers turn away and block their ears, in an attempt to protect themselves from the simultaneaous explosions of two 4.2 inch chemical mortars. The soldiers are probably from a New Zealand mortar b
A BELT OF .303 INCH MACHINE GUN ROUNDS BEING LOADED INTO AMMUNITION BOXES IN THE GUN BAY OF A FAIREY FULMAR FIGHTER OF THE BRITISH FLEET AIR ARM. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION).
TROOP FROM 2/8TH AUSTRALIAN FIELD REGIMENT, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERY, FIRING THEIR 25-POUNDER GUN AT A RANGE OF 9,800 YARDS ON GERMAN POSITIONS ON THE COASTAL SECTOR NEAR EL ALAMEIN. ON THE NIGHT OF
