The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Men of the 2/28th Australian Infantry Battalion acting as gunners, with men of the 104th Royal Horse Artillery, the crew of a captured Italian 149mm field gun, shelter behind a small stone barricade from where the gun is fired by an improvised lanyard. These precautions were necessary because of faulty ammunition and premature explosions.
Men of the 2/28th Australian Infantry Battalion acting as gunners, with men of the 104th Royal Horse Artillery, the crew of a captured Italian 149mm field gun, shelter behind a small stone barricade f
Because of faulty ammunition and premature bursts this captured Italian 149mm field gun had to be fired from a distance. Here men of the 2/28th Infantry Battalion and 104th Regiment, Royal Horse Arti
Men of the 2/28th Australian Infantry Battalion acting as gunners, with men of the 104th Royal Horse Artillery, loading a captured Italian 149mm field gun near Tobruk.
Stripped to the waist, men of the 2/28th Australian Infantry Battalion and 104th Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery, manhandle a captured 149mm Italian field gun. One of many such guns were used against
WX4619 Private Lorimer George "Laurie" Pilmer, 2/28th Australian Infantry Battalion, putting his shoulder to the wheel to move a captured Italian 149mm field gun into position near Tobruk. This gun w
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
