GUNNERS OF 2/8TH AUSTRALIAN FIELD REGIMENT, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERY, FIRING A 25-POUNDER FIELD ...

Place Africa: Egypt
Accession Number 024513
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film original negative film pack nitrate
Place made North Africa: Western Desert, Western Desert (Egypt), El Alamein Area, El Alamein
Date made 12 July 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

GUNNERS OF 2/8TH AUSTRALIAN FIELD REGIMENT, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERY, FIRING A 25-POUNDER FIELD GUN AT A RANGE OF 9,800 YARDS ON GERMAN POSITIONS ON THE COASTAL SECTOR NEAR EL ALAMEIN. ONE MAN IS SEEN ABOUT TO PLACE SHELL IN THE BREECH. NOTE PILE OF EMPTY SHELL-CASES ON RIGHT.

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