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• THE POLISH ARMY IN THE WESTERN DESERT CAMPAIGN, 1940-1942

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit 1942-02-16

  These pictures taken at the extreme forward positions around Carmuset er Regem (Karmusat ar Rijam) area near Gazala, show infantry and artillery units of the Polish Independent Carpathian Rifles Brigade facing German and Italian forces.

• THE POLISH ARMY IN THE WESTERN DESERT CAMPAIGN, 1940-1942

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit 1942-02-16

  These pictures taken at the extreme forward positions around Carmuset er Regem (Karmusat ar Rijam) area near Gazala, show infantry and artillery units of the Polish Independent Carpathian Rifles Brigade facing German and Italian forces.

• THE POLISH ARMY IN THE WESTERN DESERT CAMPAIGN, 1940-1942

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit 1942-02-16

  These pictures taken at the extreme forward positions around Carmuset er Regem (Karmusat ar Rijam) area near Gazala, show infantry and artillery units of the Polish Independent Carpathian Rifles Brigade facing German and Italian forces.

• THE POLISH ARMY IN THE WESTERN DESERT CAMPAIGN, 1940-1942

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit 1942-02-16

  These pictures taken at the extreme forward positions around Carmuset er Regem (Karmusat ar Rijam) area near Gazala, show infantry and artillery units of the Polish Independent Carpathian Rifles Brigade facing German and Italian forces.

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH AFRICA 1941

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit 1941-12-22

  A member of the crew of an Italian M13/40 tank giving himself up near Gazala. His captor might be a soldier of the Polish Independent Carpathian Rifles Brigade.

• THE POLISH GOVERNMENT IN EXILE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ANONYMOUS" (photographs) 1941-11

  General Władysław Sikorski, Prime Minister of the Polish Government-in-Exile and Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces, inspecting troops of the Independent Carpathian Rifles Brigade in Tobruk.

• THE POLISH INDEPENDENT CARPATHIAN RIFLES BRIGADE IN THE SIEGE OF TOBRUK, 1941

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit 1941-09-12

  Troops of the Polish Independent Carpathian Rifles Brigade in a Bren machine gun post. Servicemen of the Brigade distinguished themselves during the Siege of Tobruk and earned a nickname of 'the Rats of Tobruk'.

• THE POLISH INDEPENDENT CARPATHIAN RIFLES BRIGADE IN THE SIEGE OF TOBRUK, 1941

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit 1941-09-12

  Soldier of the Polish Independent Carpathian Rifles Brigade shares a joke with an Australian fellow soldier. Servicemen of both armies distinguished themselves during the Siege of Tobruk and shared a nickname of 'the Rats of Tobruk'.

• THE POLISH INDEPENDENT CARPATHIAN RIFLES BRIGADE IN THE SIEGE OF TOBRUK, 1941

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Keating G (Captain) 1941-12-06

  Military Police of the Polish Independent Carpathian Rifles Brigade guarding German POWs digging trenches at Tobruk

• THE POLISH ARMY IN THE WESTERN DESERT CAMPAIGN, 1940-1942

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" Made by: No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit 1942-02-16

  These pictures taken at the extreme forward positions around Carmuset er Regem (Karmusat ar Rijam) area near Gazala, show infantry and artillery units of the Polish Independent Carpathian Rifles Brigade facing German and Italian forces.