The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
An unidentified soldier stands on the ruins of the Quays of Babylon. It is hard to imagine that here once stood the whares and warehouses of the premier mart of Asia. The quays were built by Nebuchadnezzar II, the ruling King of the area that included Babylon, in about 586 BC along with the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Informal portrait of 20555 Sapper Eric Keast Burke,'D' Troop, 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, holding his camera and sitting on a slight rise at the site of
Ruins of the Royal Banquetting Hall of King Chosroes of Persia at Ctesophon, about 20 miles south east of Baghdad. This building is all that remains of the winter capital of the Persian Empire. It fe
Another side of the ruins of the Royal Banquetting Hall of King Chosroes of Persia at Ctesophon, about 20 miles south east of Baghdad. This building is all that remains of the winter capital of the Pe
The village of Paitak showing the Pass of Take Garreh, the classical Gates of Zagros. This road is well known in ancient history forming a section of the Royal Road from Babylon to Ecbatana (Hamadan).
Informal portrait of 20569 Driver Cecil Alfred Fordham, Light Motor Wireless Section, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, standing, and an Arab railway hand sitting at the doorway of a cattle truck, the
Kalat Sharquat is a camp between railhead and Mosul during early 1919. No 15 Station was stationed here at Christmas 1918. In the background is the excavation of the ruins of the ancient Assyrian city
