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Photograph C04296 First World War, 1914-1918Group of native women who belong to a harem situated next to the billets of the Dunsterforce at Ashar.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Colonel Donuan, known as 'Pistol Pete', Dunsterforce, taking the salute at the rehersal of a general parade at Ashar, Basra.
Group of native women who belong to a harem situated next to the billets of the Dunsterforce at Ashar.

Portrait of Major Fred Starnes, one of the Dunsterforce leaders, previously of the New Zealand army (left) and Colonel Donuan (right) at Asphar Barracks at Basra.

Basra, Mesopotamia. 1918. Aerial view of the port of Ashar with the Shatt-el-Arab in the foreground. Note the ocean going vessels and the dockyards of the Inland Water Transport. Basra (Basrah) was th

Portrait of Captain P Lay, MC, DCM, MM of the Dunsterforce, with two Persian children at his billet in Ashar, Basrah. Captain Lay was one of a number of Australians specially selected for service wit

BANDIANNA, VICTORIA, 16 JUNE 1945. A FULL CEREMONIAL PARADE OF AUSTRALIAN ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS, WAS HELD AT 1 ORDNANCE VEHICLE PARK. MAJOR-GENERAL C A CLOWES, GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING VICTORIAN LINES

Diary relating to the First World War service of Captain Percy Lay, 8th Battalion. The diary was kept by Captain Lay between 19 October 1914 and 31 March 1918, and covers his journey to Egypt aboard
