The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A finished section of the tank trap built in the 2/25th Infantry Battalion area of Syria with the aid of native labour. A perpendicular retaining wall, which will front any invasion tanks, has been bricked and reinforced.
Native labour engaged on the construction of a tank trap in the 2/25th Infantry Battalion area, Syria. Observed from a high feature the trap has the appearance of a huge river snaking from the mounta
Western Front. October 1918. A German Army tank trap built as defence against advancing British Army tanks. (Donor German War Museum Bufa 12898)
Mong Duc, Vietnam. 1970-11. A retaining wall, built with materials paid for by Australian civil aid money, at a Roman Catholic run farm ten kilometres south-west of Phan Rang. The wall was constructed
Tripoli, Syria. 6 June 1942. NX3539 Lieutenant A E Bamgarten, 2/3rd Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers, with Lebanese civilians in the tank trap under construction by civilian labour supervised
General view of a big tank trap being constructed in the coastal sector of Syria in the 2/31st Infantry Battalion area.
Western Desert, Egypt. 20 July 1942. Excavator at work on the tank- trap on the Mersa Matruh-Alexandria road, about 25 miles west of Alexandria. This work is being carried out by Royal Engineers with
