Photographs from the Australian War Memorial

300 items in this album on 15 pages.


Captured French Potez 63.11 aircraft, Aleppo, Syria, 1941	Wrecked French Potez 630 and Farman 220 aircraft at Baalbek, Syria, 1941	Australian troops in a foxhole with Bren gun near Tobruk, Libya, Aug 1941	Morshead in Tobruk, Libya, circa Aug 1941

A British Warship inside the Admiralty IX Floating Dry Dock, Singapore, Sep 1941	French Circassian Cavalry assembling outside the railway station at Damascus, French Mandate of Syria in preparation of the surrendering ceremony to Axis officials, Sep 1941	Major General Arthur Allen, commander of Australian 7th Division, and Lieutenant Colonel Murray Moten, commander of Australian 2/27th Infantry Battalion, Hammana, Lebanon, 2 Sep 1941	RMS Queen Mary (right), RMS Queen Elizabeth (left), and HMAS Sydney (foreground) off Wilson's Promontory, Victoria, Australia, 4 Sep 1941

Major General Edmund Herring, Lieutenant General John Lavarack, Major General Leslie Morshead, and Major General Samuel Burston at the Gezira Sports Club, Cairo, Egypt, 11 Sep 1941	Corporal Butcher and Drivers George Lawson, Skews, Shoobridge, and M. J. Chalmers of Australian 9th Division Army Service Corps at Tobruk, Libya, 25 Sep 1941	Australian soldier Clive H. Roughley posing with a captured MB.200 bomber, Rayak, Syria-Lebanon, 1941	Members of the No. 3 Squadron RAAF checking under the hood of a Bantam BRC 40 Jeep in Libya's western desert, Dec 1941

D3A1 carrier dive bomber being shot down over Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941	British battleship HMS Prince of Wales leaving Singapore, 8 Dec 1941	Crew of HMS Prince of Wales escaping from the sinking battleship, off Malaya, 10 Dec 1941	HMS Prince of Wales listing heavily off Malaya, 10 Dec 1941

HMS Prince of Wales off Malaya after sustaining serious damage from Japanese air attacks, 10 Dec 1941	1 shilling Japanese occupation currency note for use in previously British controlled areas in southern Asia	21 cm Mrs 18 heavy howitzer, Soviet Union, date unknown	Aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious underway, 1942. A Swordfish torpedo plane is on the flight deck and an admiralty disruptive camouflage scheme also extends across the flight deck.