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MERSA MATRUH. TROOPS WOUNDED AT TOBRUK LANDING AT MERSA MATRUH. (NEGATIVE BY F. HURLEY).
Photograph
Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
MERSA MATRUH. TROOPS WOUNDED AT TOBRUK LANDING AT MERSA MATRUH. (NEGATIVE BY F. HURLEY).007569
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An interior view of a wireless truck stationed in Tobruk. The powerful sets shown in this ...
Photograph
Maker: Fisher, Thomas
An interior view of a wireless truck stationed in Tobruk. The powerful sets shown in this picture were used to maintain contact with Cairo and DESFORCE between Mersa Matruh and Salum. Either of thes...020298
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Mersa Matruh, Libya. 1940-03. Members of 2/2nd Battalion on parade outside the barracks, ...
Photograph
Mersa Matruh, Libya. 1940-03. Members of 2/2nd Battalion on parade outside the barracks, preparing for action in Greece after their return from Tobruk. (Original housed in AWM Archive Store)P02038.107
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Gorman, Francis J (Driver)
Private Record
Maker: Gorman, Francis J
EXTRACTS FROM PERSONAL DIARY FOR 1941 COVERING SERVICE IN BARDIA, TOBRUK, MERSA MATRUH, AMARIYA, PIRAEUS AND CRETE. NEWSCUTTING RE GORMAN AND HIS DIARY.PR85/250
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Exterior view of the truck on which the powerful mobile wireless sets described at 020298 was ...
Photograph
Maker: Fisher, Thomas
Exterior view of the truck on which the powerful mobile wireless sets described at 020298 was transported. This facility was used to communicate between Tobruk, Cairo and DESFORCE and in this scene w...020310
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Mersa Matruh, Libya. 1940-03. Members of 2/2nd Battalion on parade outside the barracks, ...
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Mersa Matruh, Libya. 1940-03. Members of 2/2nd Battalion on parade outside the barracks, preparing for action in Greece after their return from Tobruk. (Original housed in AWM Archive Store)P02038.108
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MERSA MATRUH, EGYPT. 1942-11. A COLOURED MEMBER OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES POINTING TO AN ...
Photograph
MERSA MATRUH, EGYPT. 1942-11. A COLOURED MEMBER OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES POINTING TO AN ITALIAN SIGNBOARD AT MERSA MATRUH WHERE HE HAD BEEN WORKING AS FORCED LABOUR BY THE GERMANS. HE HAD BEEN CAPT...050002
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Long, Jeffrey Joseph (Staff Sergeant, b.1918 - d.1997)
Private Record
Maker: Long, Jeffrey Joseph
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX26866 Staff Sergeant Jeffrey Joseph Long, 2/24 Field Park Company, Second Australian Imperial Force, at sea, Palestine, Egypt and Libya, 1940-1...AWM2018.1023.1
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Admiralty House
Art
Maker: Herbert, Harold
"The road to the sea-front, Mersa Matruh". Admiralty House on left, a destroyer in the harbour. The destroyer made trips from Tobruch, landing wounded for the Mersa Matruh hospital or for train transp...ART30086
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Douglas Le-Fevre as a Private, 2/28th Battalion, interviewed by Brian Wall for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.
Sound
Discusses 10th Light Horse; enlistment; pay and conditions; sport; employment; marriage; religion; politics; 2/28th Battalion; training; discipline; disorganisation; weapons; leisure; mateship; morale...S00517
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Coussens, Albert Charles (Leading Signaller, b.1916 - d.1986)
Private Record
Maker: Coussens, Albert Charles
Collection relating to the Second World War service of R20584 Leading Signaller Albert Charles Coussens, HMAS Stuart, Royal Australian Navy, Mediterranean Sea, 1940-1942. Wallet 1 of 1 – Consists of ...PR04235
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Baggott, Leo (Sergeant, b.1901 - d.1993)
Private Record
Maker: Baggott, Leo Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX59998 Sergeant Leo Baggott, 9 Division Australian Army Supply Column and Australian Army Pay Corps, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia...PR06364
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"How Recordings were made and Despatched during the Libyan Campaign". Narrated by Lawrence H. Cecil and introduced by Chester Wilmot
Sound
Maker: Wilmot, Reginald William Winchester (Chester) ABC Field Unit Cecil, Lawrence H
Chester Wilmot introduces the segment describing how recordings are conducted in the field by the ABC: writing a script and then producing the recording in the desert. The unit's "CO", ABC producer La...S01999
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Tasker, Henry McKean (Lieutenant Colonel, b.1900 - d.1958)
Private Record
Maker: Quong, Wong Tong Tasker, Henry McKean
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX47925 Lieutenant Colonel Henry McKean 'Harry' Tasker, 2/24 Australian Infantry Battalion, 26 Infantry Training Battalion and British Borneo Civ...AWM2017.166.2
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Long, Gavin Merrick (General Editor - Australia in the War of 1939-45, War Correspondent b.1901 - d.1968)
Private Record
Maker: Long, Gavin Merrick
Collection relating to Gavin Long, War Correspondent and General Editor of the 1939-1945 War Official History, 1937-1978. The collection consists of notebooks, diaries, correspondence and newscutting...PR88/072
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Kebblewhite, Eli Daniel (Able Seaman b.1911 - d.1984)
Private Record
Maker: Kebblewhite, Eli Daniel
Original diaries of Able Seaman Kebblewhite covering the first two years of his service on HMAS Vendetta. The diaries contain information on the work of the Vendetta during this time including the mil...PR00127
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Presentation by Robert Hardiman to members of the Australian Historical Aviation Society about his experiences as a pilot with Royal Air Force (RAF) Photographic Reconnaissance Squadrons during the Second World War
Sound
Maker: Hardiman, Robert
SIDE A: Robert Hardiman (referred to as Richard on the tape) discusses: his first flight as a boy in 1928; early life in 1920s and 1930s; recalls examining an Avro Anson Reconnaissance bomber at Exete...S02137
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Diary of Alan Louis Singleton, 1941-1942
Digitised Collection
Maker: Singleton, Alan Louis
Diary relating to the Second World War service of NX45206 Private Alan Louis Singleton, 2/3 Company Australian Army Service Corps, January 1941 - February 1942. In this diary, Singleton documents his...AWM2019.22.8
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Diary of George William Edward Clark, January 1941 - September 1942
Digitised Collection
Maker: Clark, George William Edward
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX1058 Gunner George William Edward Clark, 1 Battery, 2/1 Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, 1940-1988. In the second of five diaries, ...AWM2019.22.82
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Diary Transcript of Alan Louis Singleton, 1941-1942; [c. 2006]
Digitised Collection
Maker: Singleton, Alan Louis
Diary transcript relating to the Second World War service of NX45206 Private Alan Louis Singleton, 2/3 Company Australian Army Service Corps, January 1941 - February 1942; [c. 2006]. This diary trans...AWM2019.22.9