Australian WWII - Far North Queensland Metal detecting and recovery
Article about: Hi Blokes ~ I am posting this as an going blog for interested parties that have been following my fossicking of (extensive) WWII ~ Far North Qld Australia . This area has been described in r
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01-28-2014, 03:24 AM
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01-28-2014, 04:11 AM
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02-01-2014, 07:03 AM
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02-02-2014, 11:25 AM
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02-05-2014, 03:40 AM
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Some local shots ~ (Very local as I/ we live on Glen Allyn rd ~ Malanda ~ FNQ) ~ photos taken during a training exercise November 1944 ~
MALANDA , QLD. Australia
1944-12-11. SAPPER C W SCHULZ, 2/6 FIELD COMPANY, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS, (1), OPERATING A MINE DETECTOR AHEAD OF A C SQUADRON, 2/9 ARMOURED REGIMENT MATILDA TANK DURING THE ADVANCE ALONG THE GLEN ALLYN ROAD.
THE TROOPS ARE ENGAGED IN THE FINAL ASSAULT AGAINST Lammins HILL AND THE CONCLUSION OF EXERCISE "RAMPANT".
MALANDA AREA, QUEENSLAND. 1944-12-11. 2/4 INFANTRY BATTALION TROOPS USE BLANK AMMUNITION AND A 2 POUNDER TANK ATTACK GUN TO ENGAGE ENEMY FORCES DURING EXERCISE "RAMPANT". IDENTIFIED PERSONNEL ARE:- LIEUTENANT E.J. LONG, (1); SERGEANT M. FYFE, (2).
A LOCAL FARMER ON HORSEBACK STOPS TO TALK WITH D COMPANY, 2/14 INFANTRY BATTALION TROOPS USING HIS PROPERTY FOR AN ASSAULT AGAINST LAMOND'S HILL DURING EXERCISE "RAMPANT". IDENTIFIED PERSONNEL ARE:- CORPORAL L. GIBSON, (1); SERGEANT HAROLD ALEXANDER PHEFLEY, (2); PRIVATE C. COATES, (3).
Photos courtesy of Australian War Memorial ~ Copy right expired public domain~
Last edited by AT P Sweep; 02-05-2014 at 05:57 AM.
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02-06-2014, 01:20 AM
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I may stand corrected but that tank does not look like a Matilda to me ...
Looks more like a Cromwell ???
But then I don't think they even had the Cromwell by early 1944 ?? Let alone ship a brand new model to Australia ~ Especially as there was an excess of Grants and Matildas which were redundant int he European theatre ..?
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02-06-2014, 09:50 AM
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02-06-2014, 11:05 AM
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We wouldn't send our best tanks to you Aussies anyway!! Just the stuff that was obsolete......
At least you blokes never sent us any of those abomination Crusaders ~ or was itt he Valentine that was the disaster ?
I guess if they were not going to work in the African deserts then it had buckly's chance in Ozz ! LOL
Well the Matildas were a fine tank in the day ~ and besides the Japanese never really had any substantial tanks or numbers anyway ~ !
Not sure about the Mailtdas..Stuart or even Churchills ~ but even today a Grant or part there of can be found in scrap yards around Aust ~
But as you probably well know the Australians eventually built their own tanks ~ the Sentinel
Search | Australian War Memorial
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02-07-2014, 02:29 PM
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More intriguing surprises
Last year I was shown a gun pit in the bush north of here by our "team" munitions expert and he explained it was a 155 mm gun,
I figured the only 155 mm I was aware of was the US Long Tom but had no knowledge of their presence in Australia even in the WWII years ~
Well~ I was doing some more research and there is is ~ Tolga, some 20 km from home ~ was another major site in WWII ~
TOLGA, QLD. 1944-04-11. AN IDEA OF COMPARISON OF SIZE IS GIVEN BY COMPARING THE MOBILE HEAVY CARRIAGE GUN, 155 MM. MARK 1.1941. (LEFT) WITH THE 18 POUNDER GUN ON RIGHT.
AWM ~ Copy right expired. Public acess ~
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02-15-2014, 09:49 AM
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An even better view of a 155 mm Long Tom at Tolga 1944
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