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The famous “Bush Artillery” of Tobruk. Men of the 2/17th Infantry Battalion AIF manning captured ...
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Maker: Fisher, Thomas
The famous “Bush Artillery” of Tobruk. Men of the 2/17th Infantry Battalion AIF manning captured Italian field guns with which they sent back 75mm shells to their original owners. The “Bush Artiller...020282
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Scene in an Advanced Regimental Aid Post near Tobruk. The soldier on the stretcher is having a ...
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Maker: Fisher, Thomas
Scene in an Advanced Regimental Aid Post near Tobruk. The soldier on the stretcher is having a splint applied at the 2/17th Infantry Battalion’s Regimental Aid Post in the El Adem Sector. NX12279 Ca...021019
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A wounded Australian soldier being carried to the underground Regimental Aid Post of the 2/17th ...
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Maker: Fisher, Thomas
A wounded Australian soldier being carried to the underground Regimental Aid Post of the 2/17th Infantry Battalion in an advanced area of Tobruk.021020
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A rotund member of the 2/17th Infantry Battalion carrying an armful of Italian 75mm shells. ...
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Maker: Fisher, Thomas
A rotund member of the 2/17th Infantry Battalion carrying an armful of Italian 75mm shells. Australian Units used them in captured Italian guns in Tobruk.021027
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TOBRUK, LIBYA, C. 1941. J. SMITH OF THE 2/17TH BATTALION STANDING AT THE GRAVE OF NX15705 ...
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TOBRUK, LIBYA, C. 1941. J. SMITH OF THE 2/17TH BATTALION STANDING AT THE GRAVE OF NX15705 CORPORAL JOHN EDMONDSON VC OF THE SAME UNIT, IN THE TOBRUK WAR CEMETERY. EDMONDSON WAS AWARDED THE VICTORIA CR...P00426.005
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Portrait of Corporal John Hurst Edmondson VC, 2/17th Infantry Battalion. He was awarded the ...
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Portrait of Corporal John Hurst Edmondson VC, 2/17th Infantry Battalion. He was awarded the Victoria Cross, posthumously, for action at 1941-04-13 at Tobruk, Libya.100642A
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Waiting for the command “FIRE”. These men of the 2/17th Infantry Battalion’s “Bush Artillery”are ...
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Maker: Fisher, Thomas
Waiting for the command “FIRE”. These men of the 2/17th Infantry Battalion’s “Bush Artillery”are in action with a captured Italian 75mm field gun.020280
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Smoke from the previous firing had not cleared away before this captured 75mm field gun operated ...
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Maker: Fisher, Thomas
Smoke from the previous firing had not cleared away before this captured 75mm field gun operated by members of the 2/17th Infantry Battalion’s “Bush Artillery” was being reloaded for further action.020285
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Under cover of their camouflage netting these members of the 2/17th Infantry Battalion’s “Bush ...
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Maker: Fisher, Thomas
Under cover of their camouflage netting these members of the 2/17th Infantry Battalion’s “Bush Artillery” fire a captured Italian 75mm field gun.020281
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One of the gunners of the “Bush Artillery”, 2/17th Infantry Battalion troops employed as ...
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Maker: Fisher, Thomas
One of the gunners of the “Bush Artillery”, 2/17th Infantry Battalion troops employed as artillerymen, at work on the breech of a captured Italian field gun which was used to fire back to the Italian...020278
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CORPORAL JOHN HURST EDMONDSON VC, 2/17TH INFANTRY BATTALION. HE WAS AWARDED THE VICTORIA CROSS, ...
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CORPORAL JOHN HURST EDMONDSON VC, 2/17TH INFANTRY BATTALION. HE WAS AWARDED THE VICTORIA CROSS, POSTHUMOUSLY, FOR ACTION ON 1941-04-13 AT TOBRUK, LIBYA.100642
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A Bren carrier operated by men from the 2/17th Infantry Battalion swirling through thick dust to ...
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Maker: Fisher, Thomas
A Bren carrier operated by men from the 2/17th Infantry Battalion swirling through thick dust to engage an enemy party in “No Man’s Land”.020372
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CORPORAL J. EDMONDSON, 2/17TH INFANTRY BATTALION, WHO WAS AWARDED THE VICTORIA CROSS (VC), ...
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CORPORAL J. EDMONDSON, 2/17TH INFANTRY BATTALION, WHO WAS AWARDED THE VICTORIA CROSS (VC), POSTHUMOUSLY, FOR ACTION AT TOBRUK, LIBYA ON 1941-04-13.044622
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NX378 Lieutenant Colonel (later Brigadier) John Wilson Crawford, Commanding Officer of 2/17th ...
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Maker: Fisher, Thomas
NX378 Lieutenant Colonel (later Brigadier) John Wilson Crawford, Commanding Officer of 2/17th Infantry Battalion. Accidentally killed 7 March 1943.020725
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Guns and crew at the alert, a Bren carrier speeds out through the dust to engage an enemy party ...
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Maker: Fisher, Thomas
Guns and crew at the alert, a Bren carrier speeds out through the dust to engage an enemy party in “No Man’s Land”.020373
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A Bren carrier from 2/17th Infantry Battalion setting out to engage an enemy party in “No Man’s ...
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Maker: Fisher, Thomas
A Bren carrier from 2/17th Infantry Battalion setting out to engage an enemy party in “No Man’s Land”.020371
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A captured Italian 75mm field gun in action - it was operated by members of the “Bush Artillery” ...
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Maker: Fisher, Thomas
A captured Italian 75mm field gun in action - it was operated by members of the “Bush Artillery” drawn from the 2/17th Infantry Battalion.020283
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A POST WAR PHOTOGRAPH OF POST R39 IN THE SOUTHERN SECTOR. THE PERIMETER DEFENCES BETWEEN R33 AND ...
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A POST WAR PHOTOGRAPH OF POST R39 IN THE SOUTHERN SECTOR. THE PERIMETER DEFENCES BETWEEN R33 AND R35 (THEN HELD BY THE 2/17TH BATTALION, AIF) WERE BREACHED BY THE GERMANS IN THE EASTER ATTACK ON TOBRU...128988
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NX378 Lieutenant Colonel John Wilson Crawford E.D. (later Brigadier, accidentally killed in ...
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Maker: Howard, Frederick James
NX378 Lieutenant Colonel John Wilson Crawford E.D. (later Brigadier, accidentally killed in Australia 7 March 1943), Commanding Officer of 2/17th Infantry Battalion, watching, from Post 32 in the El A...020207
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A wounded Australian soldier from the 2/17th Infantry Battalion being carried into the famous ...
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Maker: Fisher, Thomas
A wounded Australian soldier from the 2/17th Infantry Battalion being carried into the famous ”Fig Tree” Regimental Aid Post. Situated in a cave over which grew an old fig tree, the area was under en...021023