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Photograph C04222 First World War, 1914-1918Natives drawing water for irrigation purposes from the Tigris River, near Baghdad.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The Tigris River near Baghdad seen from the riverbank.
Natives drawing water for irrigation purposes from the Tigris River, near Baghdad.

Baghdad, Mesopotamia. c. 1918. The British Residency as seen from the Tigris River. (Donor British Official Photograph YM76)


The Tigris River near Baghdad, showing the Maude Pontoon Bridge.

The waterfront at Baghdad in the summer of 1919, showing the Serai, on the left and the Clock Tower Barracks on the right, as seen from the right bank looking north east across the Tigris River.

Drawing water, using a shaduf, from the Tigris River near Hinaidi (Baghdad). Water is drawn from the river in two buckets; as the horse goes down the cow comes up and visa versa, each pulling up a bu