The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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).
The ancient lion at Hamadan. Its origin is lost in antiquity as it bears no inscription. It is believed that it marks the site of one of the Gates of the City.
Members of No 9 Station of the Australian Wireless Signal Squadron crossing Asadabad Pass about 30 miles on the Kermanshah side of Hamadan. This pass is over 8000 feet above sea level and forms the wa
Members of No 9 Station of the Australian Wireless Signal Squadron crossing Asadabad Pass about 30 miles on the Kermanshah side of Hamadan. This pass is over 8000 feet above sea level and forms the wa
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
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 Nebucha
20161 Sapper Percy Edgar Whitehead, 2nd Reinforcements, Calvary Division Signal Squadron, from Queensland, at the deserted Persian Palace at Shevron, a village seven miles out of Hamadan.
