Men of the 2/28th Australian Infantry Battalion acting as gunners, with men of the 104th Royal ...

Place Africa: North Africa, Libya, Cyrenaica, Tobruk Area, Tobruk
Accession Number 020652
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Fisher, Thomas
Place made Libya: Tobruk
Date made 18 September 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Men of the 2/28th Australian Infantry Battalion acting as gunners, with men of the 104th Royal Horse Artillery, the crew of a captured Italian 149mm field gun, shelter behind a small stone barricade from where the gun is fired by an improvised lanyard. These precautions were necessary because of faulty ammunition and premature explosions.