The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
SYRIA. IN SPITE OF THE ALLEGEDLY PRO- GERMAN INCLINATIONS OF THE SYRIAN MOSLEMS THERE WAS NO DOUBT ABOUT THEIR ENTHUSIASM AS THEY HAILED THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE GRANTING OF THEIR INDEPENDENCE GUARANTEED BY BRITISH PROTECTION. (PHOTOGRAPHER: F. HURLEY).
LEBANON. THE LOCAL POPULATION OF THE TOWNS OF TYRE AND SAIADA (SIDON), FOR THE MOST PART MOSLEMS, TURNED OUT IN FORCE AND WITH ENTHUSIASM TO GREET THE AUSTRALIAN TROOPS WHO HAD DRIVEN THE VICHY FRENCH
SYRIA. TROOPERS OF THE CHESHIRE (YEOMANRY) REGIMENT, WHO WERE ATTACHED TO THE AUSTRALIAN FORCES DURING THE SYRIAN CAMPAIGN, WATER THEIR HORSES AT AN OLD ROMAN WELL. (PHOTOGRAPHER: F. HURLEY).
Members of the Aitarak pro-Indonesian militia salute during the funeral of Placido Ximenes. They wear black shirts, with a badge in the red and white colours of the Indonesian flag. Ximenes was was fo
BRITISH UNITS CO-OPERATED WITH THE AUSTRALIAN FIGHTING FORCES IN THE INVASION OF SYRIA. HERE THEY WERE REPAIRING AND CONSTRUCTING ROADS. (PHOTOGRAPHER: F. HURLEY).
SYRIA. HAPPY LANDING AND A LUCKY BREAK FOR AN RAF HURRICANE PILOT WHO, AFTER HIS ENGINE FAILED, MADE A SUCCESSFUL 'SKID' LANDING ON THE ROAD, IN SPITE OF THE FAILURE OF THE UNDERCARRIAGE TO OPEN. (PHO
SYRIA. SYRIAN VILLAGER AND A MEMBER OF THE AUSTRALIAN MOTOR CYCLE PATROL. (NEGATIVE BY F. HURLEY).
