Photo: 2/23rd Infantry battalion outside dugout
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These dugouts, constructed of sandbags, camouflage material and local stone, would provide some shelter from the desert sun.
Photographer unknown, 1941
Accession number: H99.202/1006
From the State Library of Victoria's Pictures collection.