The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Tobruk, Cyrenaica, Libya. 10 April 1941. The hole in the ceiling of Ward 9 of the 2/4th Australian General Hospital, made by an aerial bomb dropped during the first deliberate enemy raid on the hospital. Major J. F. (Jack) Chambers was killed by this bomb and in the same raid Major Schwarz, three orderlies and twenty eight patients were killed. (Donor Sergeant Maxwell)
Tobruk, Cyrenaica, Libya. August 1941. The damage caused to a section of the 2/4th Australian General Hospital, by a direct hit from a 250lb bomb. Although there were twenty three patients in the ward
Tobruk, Cyrenaica, Libya. August 1941. The interior of Ward 10 of the 2/4th Australian General Hospital showing damage resulting from a hit by a 250lb bomb. Reinforced concrete and the tiled roof is h
Tobruk, Cyrenaica, Libya. August 1941. A section of Ward 11 of the 2/4th Australian General Hospital, which suffered damage when hit by a bomb. The ward had contained Italian prisoners of war (POWs),
Tobruk, Cyrenaica, Libya. August 1941. Shattered concrete and debris hanging dangerously after a direct hit by a bomb on Ward 10 of the 2/4th Australian General Hospital. (Donor Sergeant Maxwell)
Tobruk, Cyrenaica, Libya. 10 April 1941. Damage caused to Ward 5 of the 2/4th Australian General Hospital (4AGH), from a direct hit from an enemy bomb. Captain G. M. (Gar) Hone and Corporal Heywood, b
Bomb damage in Ward 11 at Tobruk Hospital where VX39003 Major (Maj) John Ferguson Chambers and VX14799 Maj Zelman Schwartz were killed during a dive bombing attack.
