The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Men of the 2/17th Infantry Battalion used this captured Italian field gun to send 75mm shells back to their former owners. The soldiers were known as the “Bush Artillery” because they were infantrymen retrained in the field. This gun crew is waiting to go into action.
An unidentified Australian gun crew from the 2/17 Battalion go into action as part of the ‘Bush Artillery’. They have just fired a captured Italian 75/27 model 06 field gun using captured Italian 75mm
The famous “Bush Artillery” of Tobruk. Men of the 2/17th Infantry Battalion AIF manning captured Italian field guns with which they sent back 75mm shells to their original owners. The “Bush Artiller
One of the gunners of the “Bush Artillery”, 2/17th Infantry Battalion troops employed as artillerymen, at work on the breech of a captured Italian field gun which was used to fire back to the Italian
Waiting for the command “FIRE”. These men of the 2/17th Infantry Battalion’s “Bush Artillery”are in action with a captured Italian 75mm field gun.
Smoke belching from a captured Italian 75mm field gun which members of the 2/17th Infantry Battalion’s “Bush Artillery” used against the enemy. The soldier with a shell in his hands is about to reloa
Under cover of their camouflage netting these members of the 2/17th Infantry Battalion’s “Bush Artillery” fire a captured Italian 75mm field gun.
