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Photograph 020783 Second World War, 1939-1945This patrol from the 2/13th Infantry Battalion makes its way cautiously over open ground in the area near Tobruk.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
On the alert for signs of booby traps and mines this patrol from the 2/13th Infantry Battalion moved cautiously across this tank ditch in the area near Tobruk.
This patrol from the 2/13th Infantry Battalion makes its way cautiously over open ground in the area near Tobruk.

A small patrol from the 2/13th Infantry Battalion waiting in a tank ditch for a favourable opportunity to go further into “NO MAN’S LAND” near Tobruk.

Members of the 2/13th Battalion on patrol along the anti-tank ditch at the El Adem Road to the south of Tobruk. A close watch is kept over this ditch night and day to counter enemy attempts to pierce

An anti-tank ditch in the 2/48th Australian Infantry Battalion area, near Tobruk, to the east of the El Adem Road. QX6167 Lieutenant William Spencer Beaney, Signals Officer, 9th Australian Division,

VX104461 Sergeant (Sgt) Jack Allan Charles Knight (right)) and VX147137 Pte Francis Cyril Barr (holding a rifle), both 24 Infantry Battalion troops, on a mine clearing operation. Pte Knight operates a

TARAKAN ISLAND, 1945-05-22. LIEUTENANT J. COCHRAN, PLATOON COMMANDER, 2/2ND MACHINE GUN BATTALION, CHECKING SWITCHES AND CONTACTS ON GRENADE BOOBY TRAPS NEAR THE UNIT CAMP AREA DURING THE ATTACK ON TH
