WESTERN DESERT. AUSTRALIAN GROUND STAFF FROM A NEARBY SQUADRON JOINED UP WITH THE NEW ZEALAND ...

Place Africa: North Africa, Western Desert
Accession Number 010842/37
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Silk, George
Place made North Africa: Western Desert
Date made c November 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

WESTERN DESERT. AUSTRALIAN GROUND STAFF FROM A NEARBY SQUADRON JOINED UP WITH THE NEW ZEALAND INFANTRY IN THE CONFUSED MOVEMENTS OF THIS PERIOD, AND SHARED THE EXCITEMENT OF RECAPTURING A BRITISH MATILDA TANK THAT HAD BEEN CAPTURED AND USED BY THE GERMANS. THERE ARE FURTHER SHOTS OF THESE CHAPS ON STRIP 10841.