Keywords: 2-8 Field Regt.jpg AWM Caption 25-pounder guns of the 2/8th Field Regiment Royal Australian Artillery in action on the coastal sector near El Alamein Egypt They are being fired at a range of 9 800 yards on to enemy positions As a reprisal shoot this troop fired 1 250 rounds in one and a half hours at rapidly changing ranges in reply to German artillery which fired 700 rounds in one hour A pile of empty shell cases is seen in foreground 024515 1942-07-12 author PD-Australia PD-1996 Australia Metadata from image QF 25 pounder World War II forces of Australia in Egypt First Battle of El Alamein Cartridge cases Black and white photographs of World War II Artillery of Australia |