TOBRUK - MEN OF 2/3 BN FORMED UP IN WADI AVDA TO GREET THE P.M. MR. MENZIES DURING HIS VISIT. A ...

Accession Number 005875
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Parer, Damien Peter
Place made North Africa: Libya, Cyrenaica, Tobruk Area, Tobruk
Date made c February 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

TOBRUK - MEN OF 2/3 BN FORMED UP IN WADI AVDA TO GREET THE P.M. MR. MENZIES DURING HIS VISIT. A WELL IN THIS WADI WHICH IS THE MAJOR SOURCE OF WATER SUPPLY TO TOBRUK. IT WAS ALSO AN ITALIAN STRONGPOINT BEFORE THESE TROOPS DISLODGED THEM. (NEGATIVE BY D. PARER).