The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Australian soldiers unloading stores from the Italian schooner HMS Maria Giovanna, captained by Lieutenant (Lt) Alfred “Pedlar” Palmer, Royal Navy Reserve, in Tobruk Harbour. Lt Palmer sailed into Tobruk Harbour weekly to deliver food and supplies to fellow Australians stationed there, prior to his capture in November 1941.
Tobruk, Libya. 11 September 1941. Informal portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) Alfred (Pedlar) Palmer DSC, Royal Navy Reserve, captain of the Italian schooner, HMS Maria Giovanna. Lt Palmer sailed the schoone
Informal portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) Alfred (Pedlar) Palmer DSC, Royal Navy Reserve, captain of the Italian schooner, HMS Maria Giovanna. Lt Palmer sailed the schooner from Alexandria or Mersa Matruh
Informal portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) Alfred (Pedlar) Palmer DSC, Royal Navy Reserve, captain of the Italian schooner, HMS Maria Giovanna. Lt Palmer sailed the schooner from Alexandria or Mersa Matruh
TOBRUK. UNLOADING STORES FROM A TRANSPORT SHIP AT TOBRUK HARBOUR. THANKS TO THE NAVY TOBRUK'S SEA COMMUNICATIONS HAVE BEEN KEPT OPEN. (NEGATIVE BY F. HURLEY).
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) personnel on the parade ground at Lancing College. An outpost of HMS King Alfred, the RNVR training establishent at Hove, the school was taken over in 1941 and re
Informal group portrait of officers of the destroyer HMAS Nestor on board HMS Javelin. HMAS Nestor came under aerial attack whilst on convoy duty in the Mediterranean on 15 June 1942. Badly damaged in
