DESCENDANTS OF THE rats of tobruk association inc
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Photo Gallery - Submissions from the Ranks
Brian gardiner
Maori Pioneer battalion ww1 /Lieutenant George Gardiner 2/23 battalion ww2 dow 18th May 1941.
Geoff toll
In Cairo November 1941
Geoff toll
November 1941
Bernie Stevenson
On the boat coming home from the Middle East in 1942
Bernie Stevenson
Uncle John Thomas Stevenson QX13293 greeting 3 of his sisters at Mackay Railway Station in July 1942
Bernie Stevenson
Cousins Alfred William Jackson QX2737 and John Thomas Stevenson QX13293
Jenny Oakley
My father VX16163 Ronald Shapter (bottom right seated) and others in Palestine 1940
Ron Mitchell DOTROTA Member Number 480
Tobruk Sunday 19 March 2017. Rat of Tobruk Bill Mitchell of the 2/43rd Battalion with is son Ron Mitchell with the fig tree that Bill Mitchell (an orchardist) planted many years ago at the Tobruk Memorial at Kings Park, Perth, Western Australia in honour of the Fig Tree Hospital in Tobruk, Lybia.
Ron Mitchell DOTROTA Member Number 480
Tobruk Sunday, 19 March 2017. Rat of Tobruk Bill Mitchell of the 2/43rd Battalion walks through a Cadet Honour Guard at the beginning of the Tobruk Sunday commemoration, at the Tobruk Memorial, Kings Park, Perth, Western Australia
Ron Mitchell DOTRATA Member Number 480
Tobruk Sunday 19 March 2017. Rat of Tobruk Bill Mitchell of the 2/43rd Battalion at the Tobruk Memorial in Kings Park, Perth, Western Australia
David McIntosh
Dad's signed copy of the Fig Tree Hospital painting
David McIntosh
Thomas McIntosh ( Dad ) at the World Reunion held on the Gold Coast
David McIntosh
Les Royal and Thomas McIntosh ( Dad ) - 2/32nd in London 1940
David McIntosh
Thomas McIntosh ( Dad ) with Stan Vickerman - 2/32nd in Durban RSA
David McIntosh
Alf Thrupp, Jack Murray and Thomas McIntosh (Dad ) 2/32nd in Palestine
David McIntosh
Thomas McIntosh ( Dad ) QX7068 Nairn,Scotland - visiting his birthplace
David McIntosh
Tom McIntosh QX7068 ( Dad ) - first photo with Mum, Birdcage Walk near Buckingham Palace, London 1940
David McIntosh
Tom McIntosh QX7068 1940
Liam Chaplin
ANZAC DAY during the mid-1960’s. 2/48th Rats including John Deer Cox MM (right) & Kingsley Albrecht DCM. Photo has faded the names of the other two DCM & MM recipients on left.
Liam Chaplin
TOBRUK, LIBYA. 1941-04-24. AUSTRALIAN TROOPS OF THE 2/48TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION MANNING A DEFENSIVE POST, IN THE SALIENT NEAR THE SOUTH ACROMA ROAD. POST S2, A WATER TOWER, CAN BE SEEN IN THE DISTANCE. SEEN ARE:- PRIVATE JENKINS (OVERCOAT); PRIVATE SCHULTZ (CIGARETTE); PRIVATE J.D. COX (BEHIND GUN); PRIVATE D.W. EDEN; PRIVATE SELLORS (RIGHT).