The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 Artillery” played a notable part in the exploits of the Australians at Tobruk.
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 infantryme
A rotund member of the 2/17th Infantry Battalion carrying an armful of Italian 75mm shells. Australian Units used them in captured Italian guns in Tobruk.
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
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.
Under cover of their camouflage netting these members of the 2/17th Infantry Battalion’s “Bush Artillery” fire a captured Italian 75mm field gun.
