The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
An Italian tank mine being made useless by SX869 Sapper (later Corporal) Gordon Lindsay Hantken of the 2/3 Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers, 9th Division. Known as MK B II, it was commonly used to trap tanks and motor transport vehicles.
Florence, Italy. c. August 1944. Members of an all Australian Kittyhawk fighter bomber squadron operating from a central Italian airfield inspect a German Panzerkampfwagen V Ausf A (commonly known as
A German prisoner sitting on a box and flanked by 410014 Sapper Athol Robert (Bob) Masterton and SX4570 Corporal Douglas (Doug) Gordon Turner, of the 9th Australian Division Cavalry Regiment (9 Aust D
ALICE SPRINGS, AUSTRALIA. 1942-12-17. CORPORAL LINDSAY THOMPSON (LEFT) AND SAPPER JACK GORDON OF THE 4TH ARMY TROOP COMPANY, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS, PUTTING THE FINISHING TOUCHES TO ONE OF THE WAT
This Italian booby trap, known as IK B IV was used in the Western Desert. I t was exploded by pressure against a trip wire which released a lever of the mouse-trap type and allowed the plunger to str
ROADS BEING BUILT BY 1ST FIELD SQUADRON, PLANT TROOP, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS, WERE CLEARED EACH MORNING BY TANKS. NOTE THE HOLE IN THE ROAD (RIGHT FOREGROUND) MADE WHEN A TANK HIT A MINE.
A Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC) Churchill 'Crocodile' tank, fires a burst of flame on the range at Puckapunyal. The Australian army purchased 51 Churchill tanks from Britain in late 1945 but
