The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Officers of the 2/17th Infantry Battalion at Post 32, in the El Adem Sector, scan the section for signs of a patrol affray taking place about 1,000 yards out. In the background can be seen a crow’s nest artillery observation post.
NX378 Lieutenant Colonel John Wilson Crawford E.D. (later Brigadier, accidentally killed in Australia 7 March 1943), Commanding Officer of 2/17th Infantry Battalion, watching, from Post 32 in the El A
This carrier is speeding on its way into “No Man’s Land” to support a fighting patrol of the 2/17th Infantry Battalion from Post 32 in the El Adem Sector.
GUNNERS OF 2/8TH AUSTRALIAN FIELD REGIMENT, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERY, FIRING A 25-POUNDER FIELD GUN AT A RANGE OF 9,800 YARDS ON GERMAN POSITIONS ON THE COASTAL SECTOR NEAR EL ALAMEIN. ONE MAN IS SE
Scene in an Advanced Regimental Aid Post near Tobruk. The soldier on the stretcher is having a splint applied at the 2/17th Infantry Battalion’s Regimental Aid Post in the El Adem Sector. NX12279 Ca
A front line observation post of the 11th Battalion, near Lihons, within two hundred yards of the enemy, who could be seen dodging about dugout entrances in the trenches. The four soldiers are unident
Exterior of the buildings of Observation Post 54 on the Israeli side of the border with Jordan and Syria. In the background can be seen Tel Faris. Australian members of UNTSO (United Nations Truce Sup
