The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Tel el Eisa, Egypt. 1 August 1942. NX25154 Sergeant Augustus William Longhurst (shirtless) of 2/2nd Australian Machine Gun Battalion, who attacked a German tank with a sticky bomb, disabling it and then fired a Vickers medium machine gun from the hip, killing 3 of the crew of 4 as they attempted to run for cover.
TEL EL EISA, EGYPT. 1942-08-01. MEN OF THE 2/2ND AUSTRALIAN MACHINE GUN BATTALION MANNING A VICKERS MACHINE GUN AT THE TEL EL EISA RAILWAY CUTTING. PRIVATE A. STARKEY IS IN THE FIRING POSITION, THE OT
TEL EL EISA, EGYPT. 1942-08-01. MEN OF THE 2/2ND AUSTRALIAN MACHINE GUN BATTALION MANNING A VICKERS MACHINE GUN AT THE TEL EL EISA RAILWAY CUTTING. PRIVATE A. STARKEY IS IN THE FIRING POSITION, THE OT
Tel El Eisa, Egypt. 1942-07. Australian machine gunners, Privates Rymer of Manly and Cullen of Summer Wells, Australia fired their Vickers continuously for two days against German positions.
TEL-EL-EISA. EGYPT. 1942-07. ARTILLERYMEN OF THE 9TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISION ARE HERE SEEN MANNING A 6-POUNDER ANTI-TANK GUN IN THE TEL-EL-EISA AREA. THIS GUN PLAYED HAVOC WITH ENEMY TANKS.
TEL EL EISA, EGYPT. 1942-08-02. DUMMY ANTI-TANK GUN JUST FORWARD OF "C" COMPANY 2/48TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION 300 YARDS EAST OF TEL EL EISA.
TEL EL EISA, EGYPT. 1942-08-01. GUN CREW OF 2/2ND AUSTRALIAN MACHINE GUN BATTALION, ATTACHED TO 2/48TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION, IN THEIR CAMOUFLAGED GUN POSITION.
