The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Djedeide Gorge formed the chief anti-tank barrier between the Lebanon and anti-Lebanon Ranges during the Syrian Campaign. Australian troops prepared ditches, machine gun posts and pill boxes in the gorge which started at the anti-Lebanon Range and ran through the villages of Fakie and Djedeide, across a wide plain to the Lebanon Range.
One of many anti-tank and machine gun posts on the ridge in front of Beaurevoir, after the capture of that area, which formed the rear system of the Hindenburg Defences. In a number of cases these pos
BALIKPAPAN, BORNEO. 1946. A JAPANESE ANTI TANK OBSTACLE AT REF. 58056285, CONSISTING OF STAGGERED STEEL POSTS ON THE EAST OF THE ROAD AND A DITCH ON THE WEST OF THE ROAD. THE DITCH IS FROM 12' TO 14'
NEW GUINEA. 1943-11-24. CLOSE UP OF THE RANGE FINDER AND PULL IGNITER OF THE JAPANESE SPIGOT MORTAR (ANTI-TANK). THIS EQUIPMENT HAS BEEN PREPARED FOR DEMONSTRATION PURPOSES BY THE COMMAND ROYAL ENGINE
STARBOARD SIDE VIEW OF THE CRUISER HMAS PERTH (I) DURING THE SYRIAN CAMPAIGN. THE SHIP HAS BEEN CAMOUFLAGED, PROBABLY IN TWO SHADES OF GREY, COMPRISING 507A, (THE DARKER GREY) AND 507C. HER CATAPULT H
The corduroy track across Anzac Ridge, in the Ypres sector, lined with mangled horses and broken wagons. The two pill boxes alongside the road were used as regimental aid posts and dressing stations d
NORTHERN AUSTRALIA. SPLENDID SHOOTING BY AN ANTI-TANK UNIT IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA. THIS TARGET, SHAPED TO REPRESENT A TANK, WAS TOWED ACROSS ROUGH COUNTRY HUNDREDS OF YARDS IN FRONT OF TWO POUNDER GUNS
