Men of the 2/31st Infantry Battalion at work on the Field Signal Exchange excavations. The work ...

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Accession Number 021183
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Sanders, William Charles
Place made French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon: Syria, Jebel Tourbel, French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon: Syria, Jebel Tourbel
Date made 25 October 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

Men of the 2/31st Infantry Battalion at work on the Field Signal Exchange excavations. The work was part of the second line of defence which ran from the Syrian coast at a point three miles south of the aerodrome on the Tripoli-Latakia Road and almost due east to the Jebel Tourbel area.