The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The fuel depot run by the 1st Australian Divisional Train at Mena Camp. Fatigue parties, assisted by Egyptian labourers, are unloading timber from horse drawn wagons in the foreground, near piles of roughly cut logs and kindling. Lines of EPIP tents are on the right, and groups of soldiers are visible amongst the rows of other tents in the centre. Note the columns of mounted troops assembled on the distant plain beyond the camp, probably performing a drill.
The fuel depot run by the 1st Australian Divisional Train at Mena Camp. Fatigue parties, assisted by Egyptian labourers, are unloading timber from horse drawn wagons in the foreground, near piles of r
The supply depot of the 1st Australian Divisional Train at Mena Camp, Egypt. Several groups of Australians, some assisted by Egyptian labourers, are loading large horse drawn wagons with hessian bags.
A young local newspaper vendor, a daily visitor to Mena Camp outside Cairo who urged the men to buy 'Egyptian Times tomorrow!'. He is holding two copies of the Cairo Herald and another newspaper whos
View of Mena Camp, ten miles from Cairo, where Australian troops came for several months of intensive training before embarking for the Gallipoli Peninsula. Transport lines of the 1st Australian Field
Columns of Australian infantry marching into camp at Lemnos Island. Rest camps were established on Lemnos for Australian troops during the Gallipoli campaign, and they were later evacuated to the isla
Elevated view of a church parade at Mena Camp in the desert ten miles from Cairo. Rows of bell shaped eight person Indian production (EPIP) tents can be seen in the background. The AIF spent several
