Unidentified members of the 2nd Field Regiment RAA preparing to fire a six-inch gun. The men ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Mornington Peninsula
Accession Number P11447.008
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Sharpe-Reed, Eric
Place made Australia: Victoria
Date made c 1939
Conflict Army organisation period 1930-1942
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Unidentified members of the 2nd Field Regiment RAA preparing to fire a six-inch gun. The men were taking part during an annual training exercise, possibly at Puckapunyal, Victoria.One of a series of images taken by Gunner Eric Sharpe-Reed that feature the training activities of the 2nd Medium Field Regiment in Victoria that includes the unit's Thornycroft tractors, medium field guns and live firing practice at Puckapunyal, on the Mornington Peninsula near Cape Schank, or at Point Nepean.