Photographs of Second World War active service in the Middle East [PRG 1737/2] • Photograph
Soldiers with nursing sister.
On back of photograph: Taken at the 6th A.G.H., Gaza, July 1942.
Gaza.
Group of seven soldiers at Gaza.
Grave and cross.
Grave of SX 9301, Pte. A.W. Tait (Alf), 2/48th btn. killed in action 10th July 1942.
Grave, surrounded by stones, and cross.
Grave of SX5269, Sergeant Maurice Richard Roche, killed in action 11 July 1942.
Grave and cross.
Grave of SX8636, Private Victor Linnington John Young, killed in action 22 July 1942.
Grave and cross.
Grave of SX6297, Private Donald Ridley, killed in action 22 July 1942.
Grave and cross.
Grave of SX8881, Private James (Jimmy) McArthur Sutherland, killed in action 22 July 1942.
'Jones Alemein'.
Man with shovel crouched alongside grave and cross. Grave of SX8636 Private Victor Linnington John Young, 2/48 Australian Infantry Battalion, who was killed on 22 July 1942.
Ten crosses.
Grave site of R. Bryant, W.D. Cockshell, W.C. Quinn, J.J. Buckley, H.S. Searle, W.A. Craig, C. Fraser, C.H. Schulz, C.E. Dolling and E.E. Parkyn.
'Road to Alamein, Middle East'.
Army trucks on road through desert landscape.
'Coast Line Alamein'.
Beach at El Alamein, Egypt.
Six soldiers in a desert location.
A soldier with a very short haircut with hand lifted to indicate nearly bald head of another soldier.
Soldiers in desert location.
D. Sutherland, T. Elliott, B. Foster, Blue Meredith and Gordon Jury.
'Snow Randford in some hun clothing Egypt'.
'Snow Randford', possibly Corporal Robert Frank Gordon Ranford, SX7410 in German uniform.
No. 11 Platoon
'No 11 Platoon, or part of them, resting after the day's work is done'.
11th Platoon.
Group photograph of nine soldiers of the 11th Platoon.
Hill of Jesus.
'Scene after Break through On Hill of Jesus' [Tel el Eisa].
Studio portrait of Harold Good.
On back of photograph: 'Taken in Jerusalem Nov. 1942. Here's wishing you a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year Mum From Your Loving Son Harold xxxx'
Jerusalem War Cemetery.
Entrance to the Jerusalem British War Cemetery. Photograph may have been taken late in 1942 as there is snow on the ground.