The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
LIBYA. 1942-01. A FAMILIAR SIGHT TO ALL AUSTRALIANS WHO TOOK PART IN THE FIRST LIBYAN CAMPAIGN WAS THIS HUGE SIGN PAINTED BY SX538 SAPPER "DOC" DAWES ON A ROADSIDE BUILDING BETWEEN TOBRUK AND DERNA.
LIBYA. 1942-01. A FAMILIAR SIGHT TO ALL AUSTRALIANS WHO TOOK PART IN THE FIRST LIBYAN CAMPAIGN WAS THIS HUGE SIGN PAINTED BY SX538 SAPPER "DOC" DAWES ON A ROADSIDE BUILDING BETWEEN TOBRUK AND DERNA.
LIBYA. 1942-01. MEMORIES OF HOME WERE REVIVED FOR AUSTRALIAN TROOPS WHEN THEY PASSED THIS HOUSE ON THE ROAD BETWEEN DERNA AND TOBRUK. IT WAS PAINTED BY SX538 SAPPER "DOC" DAWES.
South Australian painter, SZ538 Sapper Leslie John “Doc” Dawes, 2/3rd Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers, painted these signs on a road house about Kilo 30 west of Tobruk.
GIOVANNI BERTA, LIBYA. 1941-12. FATHER LORENZO GAGGINO, SEEN HERE WITH LOCAL VILLAGERS, WAS FORMERLY A PRIEST IN TOBRUK. HE WAS EVACUATED FROM THERE WHEN IT WAS TAKEN BY THE AUSTRALIANS IN THE FIRST L
GIOVANNI BERTA, LIBYA. 1941-12. FATHER LORENZO GAGGINO, SEEN HERE WITH LOCAL VILLAGERS, WAS FORMERLY A PRIEST IN TOBRUK. HE WAS EVACUATED FROM THERE WHEN IT WAS TAKEN BY THE AUSTRALIANS IN THE FIRST L
A reminder of home. This sign in the Western Desert done by a South Australian painter, SZ538 Sapper Leslie John “Doc” Dawes, 2/3rd Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers, is one of many such signs
