The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A crowd of Australian soldiers, many holding their kit bags, standing beside rail cars at Durban port en route to Australia in 1919. From 1916, it became necessary for transports of Australian soldiers to travel around the Cape of Good Hope rather than through the Suez Canal due to the risk from submarine attacks in the Mediterranean. Durban became an important stopping point in the voyage as the journey to and from Australia took up to eight weeks.
Local men, standing atop a rail car, shovel coal into large baskets in preparation for supply to troopships moored at Durban harbour en route to and from Australia in 1919. Durban became an important
Men of the 4th Australian Light Horse Regiment waiting with their kit bags before embarking for Australia on HMT Essex, on the Suez Canal.
Survey Dept. Outline maps of rail lines and stations in Egypt. Scale 1:2,000,000. Contents: Railway map of Lower Egypt -- Railway map of Upper Egypt. Extend from the Mediterranean coast south to Aswa
VIEW ON DECK OF THE "STAR OF VICTORIA" AT SEA, WHEN THE 8TH A.L.H. REGIMENT WERE ABOARD, EN ROUTE FOR EGYPT. 1915-02. BAGS OF COAL ARE PLACED ALONG THE RAIL OF THE DECK AS A PROTECTION AGAINST HOSTILE
A net full of kit and equipment of troops of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) who had travelled from the Middle East en route to Australia is unloaded from the troopship Mendoza. The kit, etc, will
Unloading kit and equipment by net of troops of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) who had travelled in the Mendoza to Colombo from the Middle East en route to Australia. The kit, etc, will be transh
