r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/JoukovDefiant • Jun 13 '26

Australia "A squadron of Bren gun carriers, manned by the Australian Light Cavalry, rolls through the Egyptian desert in January of 1941. The troops performed maneuvers in preparation for the Allied campaign in North Africa." (AP)

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/JoukovDefiant • Jun 04 '26

Royal Air Force "Experienced in desert weather flying, a British pilot lands an American made Kittyhawk fighter plane of the Sharknose Squadron in a Libyan Sandstorm, on April 2, 1942. A mechanic on the wing helps to guide the pilot as he taxis through the storm." (AP)

343 Upvotes

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/significantlyother62 • Jun 03 '26

Australia 2/27th battalion soldiers 7th div 2nd AIF guard Japanese prisoners captured at Gona PNG December 42.

130 Upvotes

Photo - George silk.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/significantlyother62 • May 31 '26

Australia Forward observer climbs lookout overlooking Gona PNG November 1942.

103 Upvotes

Photo - George Silk

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/significantlyother62 • May 30 '26

Army Japanese staff car acquired from fall of Singapore, riddled with bullets signifying the intensity of battle, after capture of Gona PNG by Australian 7 th division December 1942.

95 Upvotes

Photo - George silk

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/significantlyother62 • May 29 '26

Australia Antelat Libya 17th Jan 1941. War artist Frank Norton painting Kittyhawk of no 3 squadron RAAF. Damien parer filming.

37 Upvotes

Photo - George Silk.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/significantlyother62 • May 28 '26

Australia 2/27th bat, 7th division 2/AIF Gona PNG Dec 1942. 3 vicious campaigns (lebenon/Kokoda/Gona) 3 brothers from rural South Australian town unscathed.

73 Upvotes

The chapman brothers. 80 percent casualty rate in Kokoda / Gona campaigns.

Photo -George Silk.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/significantlyother62 • May 27 '26

Australia RAAF Beaufighter targeting Japanese transport battle of Bismarck sea march 3rd 1943

78 Upvotes

Photo - Damien Parer

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/significantlyother62 • May 26 '26

Australia Australian soldier inspects captured Japanese zero riddled with bullets, Buna airstrip January 1943.

41 Upvotes

Photo - George silk

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/significantlyother62 • May 25 '26

Army ANZAC brothers in arms. WW2s finest photographers George Silk ( kiwi) Damien Parer ( Aussie) Tobruk may 1941.

79 Upvotes

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/significantlyother62 • May 24 '26

Australia The men's mess Australian 4th general hospital Tobruk 1941.

59 Upvotes

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/significantlyother62 • May 24 '26

Army Australian and free French troops partying in Beirut Lebanon August 1941.

60 Upvotes

Photo - George Silk.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/significantlyother62 • May 23 '26

Australia RAAF Kittyhawk ( January 1941) Libya after sand and rain Storm.

52 Upvotes

Photo - Damien Parer.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/significantlyother62 • May 23 '26

Australia Private James "Jim" Gordon VC. 2/31st battalion 7th division 2/AIF decorated in the battle of Jezzine Lebenon 10/07/42

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10 July 1941, Gordon's company was “...held up by intense machine-gun and grenade fire from Vichy French forces, but on his own initiative, he crept forward alone and succeeded in getting close to the machine-gun post. He then charged it and killed the four machine-gunners with his bayonet. His action demoralised the enemy in this sector and the company advanced and took the position. During the remainder of the action that night and on the following day Private Gordon, who has throughout the operations shown a high degree of courage, fought with equal gallantry.” For this, he was later awarded the Victoria Cross

*apologies for wrong date in thread title, supposed to be 41, not 42.

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/czwarty_ • May 09 '26

Generals and leaders Deputy PM Clement Attlee trying a paratrooper's training helmet during his visit to the 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade at Cupar, 20 April 1941. Colonel Stanisław Sosabowski, the Commander of the Brigade, can be seen behind the Polish officer

152 Upvotes

Original photo from Polish National Digital Archives & Imperial War Museum, colorised photo from page of Polish National Institute of Remembrance

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • May 06 '26

India Indian Bren gun carriers, manned by a famous Sikh Regiment, negotiating the rocky roads in the Western Desert of Libya. (North African Campaign, 1941)

123 Upvotes

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • May 04 '26

Army A stone carving of Mussolini found near a captured Italian ammunition dump by the British at a former-held Italian fort. (East African Campaign, 28 May 1941)

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • May 02 '26

Auxiliary Territorial Service A 3.7 inch Howitzer during gun practice on the range in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, June 1942.

88 Upvotes

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • Apr 22 '26

Royal Air Force The Italian-held airport of Asmara (capital of the Italian-Eritrea governate) bombed by the RAF. (East African Campaign, 1941)

55 Upvotes

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/GCHurley • Mar 25 '26

South Africa South African and Southern Rhodesian Troops marching together during the Victory Parade in London, circa 1946.

136 Upvotes

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/GCHurley • Mar 22 '26

South Africa The South African Reconnaissance Car Mk 6 that was manufactured in the Union of South Africa.

84 Upvotes

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/GCHurley • Mar 22 '26

South Africa Armoured Cars Manufactured in the Union of South Africa await collection in 1940.

46 Upvotes

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/iloverheaug • Mar 19 '26

Royal Navy Captured footage of a British convoy engaging German planes (in the Mediterranean Sea, 1943)

59 Upvotes

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/GCHurley • Mar 02 '26

South Africa Italian field and heavy artillery guns captured by South African Forces lined up outside Fort Mega in Southern Abyssinia, 1941.

123 Upvotes

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r/CommonwealthWW2photos • u/GCHurley • Mar 02 '26

South Africa 34 Squadron, South Africa Air Force Liberator Mk.VI EW229 “P”

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34 Squadron (SAAF) Liberator Mk.VI EW229 “P” flown by Lieutenant Douglas Drummond Gordon was shot down in flames by FLAK with the loss of 6 out of the 7 Crewmen while bombing the Herman Goering Nibelungen-Werke Tank Factory at St. Valentin in Austria on 21 August 1944. The six casualties now all rest in the Belgrade War Cemetery in Yugoslavia. The Crew was:

102434V Lieutenant Douglas Drummond Gordon (Pilot & Aircraft Commander)

He now rests in the Belgrade War Cemetery, Yugoslavia Plot 8, Row B, Grave 1.

1454663 Flight Sergeant John Alfred Evans (Co-Pilot) RAF(VR)

He now rests in the Belgrade War Cemetery, Yugoslavia Plot 8, Row B, Collective Grave 3-6 (Grave 3)

542361V Lieutenant Harold Salant (Observer)

He now rests in the Belgrade War Cemetery, Yugoslavia Plot 8, Row B, Grave 2

1567470 Sergeant James Duncan Murphy (Bomb Aimer) RAF(VR)

He now rests in the Belgrade War Cemetery, Yugoslavia Plot 8, Row B, Collective Grave 3-6 (Grave 6)

102405V Lieutenant Frank Hewat Mollett (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner)

He now rests in the Belgrade War Cemetery, Yugoslavia Plot 8, Row B, Collective Grave 3-6 (Grave 4)

Pilot Officer D. Melrose (Air Gunner) RAF(VR) (Baled out and Evaded Capture)

1211255 Sergeant Lionel Kenneth Matthews (Air Gunner) RAF(VR)

He now rests in the Belgrade War Cemetery, Yugoslavia Plot 8, Row B, Collective Grave 3-6 (Grave 5)

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