Troops from the Australian 2/43rd Infantry Battalion, 2/9th Armored Regiment, advance with a Matilda tank on Labuan Island, off the coast of Northern Borneo; June 1945. The soldier on the far right is carrying an Owen submachine gun.

Aussie soldiers and tank together

A patrol from the 2/13th Infantry Battalion, 9th Division (Australia), wait in a tank ditch for a favourable opportunity to go further into no-man's land;  8 September 1941.

Fighting in the desert

Members of the 2/24th Infantry Battalion pose with captured Japanese swords and flags in Borneo, Netherlands East Indies; July 1945.