File:Australian Heliograph in Egyptian Desert 1940.png

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Two A.I.F. signallers use a heliograph during exercises in the Western Desert of Egypt (Libya) in Nov. 1940, during World War II. This photo was made into a A.I.F. recruiting poster in Sept. 1941. This is an official Department of Information (Australia) photo of two signallers of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force. They are using a Mance Mark V heliograph in duplex (dual-mirror) mode to signal by Morse Code using reflected sunlight modulated by tilting one mirror. This photo appeared in the Australian Sydney Morning Herald on Nov. 13, 1940 ( https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qLVVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=spYDAAAAIBAJ&dq=department-of-information%20heliograph&pg=7317%2C1448435 ), the West Australian on Nov. 16, 1940 (http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/46749411), and the Examiner (Tasmania) on Nov. 20, 1940 (http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52389945) The poster was announced on Sept. 11, 1941, in the Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) (http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41941629). This was the cover photo for the British publication "The War Illustrated", VOl. 4, No.75, Feb. 7, 1941, with the title: "Signals in The Desert Battle: Australians With A Heliograph".

Date

Taken on 13 November 1940

Source

This is an official Australian Department of Information photo taken in Nov. 1940 in Libya. I ordered this particular scan from the State Library of Victoria, http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/argus/gid/slv-pic-aaa30361/1/an014292, with the stated purpose of putting it in Wikimedia to make it publicly viewable and downloadable. Their record for this item says to cite it as Argus Newspaper Collection of photographs, State Library of Victoria, Accession no(s) H99.202/2489, and states that This work is out of copyright , No copyright restrictions apply.

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Anonymous, official Department of Information (Australia) photo.

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