About 14,000 Australian soldiers were besieged at Tobruk in 1941 by German troops under the command of General Rommel. Photographers Damien Parer and George Silk are seen here in a dug-out at the edge of Tobruk Harbour waiting for an air raid. Parer holds a movie camera while Silk has a telephoto lens fitted to his Contex camera. The image was collected by Alan Anderson, who served in the Middle East as a sound engineer in the Commonwealth Department of Information photographic unit under the command of Frank Hurley.
by unknown photographer
gelatin-silver print
State Library of New South Wales, PXE 1005
collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YoldJR29/ZDb473Lppyd5J
On display in State Library of New South Wales Exhibition 'Shot'
www.sl.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/shot
