The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Some of the men who escaped from Crete in an abandoned launch which drifted helplessly for eight days before landing on the beach at Sidi Barrani. Back row, from left: Private (Pte) A. C. Jackson, VX8889 Pte Roy Nicholas Doran, Driver J. L. Smith, WX728 Pte Edward John Host. Front row, from left: Pte J. A. Gordon, Pte H. Richards, VX7141 Lance Corporal George Joseph McMillan, Pte J. C. Thompson.
THESE MEN ESCAPED FROM CRETE AND SAILED TO EGYPT IN A CRAFT FITTED WITH A SAIL MADE OF ARMY BLANKETS AND STITCHED WITH LEATHER BOOTLACES. THE TRIP TOOK NINE DAYS AND THE RATIONS WERE 1 TIN OF BULLY BE
Private H Richards, one of the men who escaped from Crete in an abandoned launch which drifted helplessly for eight days before landing on the beach at Sidi Barrani.
WX447 Private Edgar Anthony Gillies, one of the men who escaped from Crete in an abandoned launch which drifted helplessly for eight days before landing on the beach at Sidi Barrani.
WX981 Corporal Ronald Pierce Bradfield, one of the men who escaped from Crete in an abandoned launch which drifted helplessly for eight days before landing on the beach at Sidi Barrani.
NX13358 Private Kenneth Allen (Bluey) Legge, one of the men who escaped from Crete in an abandoned launch which drifted helplessly for eight days before landing on the beach at Sidi Barrani.
NX4358 Corporal Henry George Browning Nugent, one of the men who escaped from Crete in an abandoned launch which drifted helplessly for eight days before landing on the beach at Sidi Barrani.
THESE MEN ESCAPED FROM CRETE AND SAILED TO EGYPT IN A CRAFT FITTED WITH A SAIL MADE OF ARMY BLANKETS AND STITCHED WITH LEATHER BOOTLACES. THE TRIP TOOK NINE DAYS AND THE RATIONS WERE 1 TIN OF BULLY BE