The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Copy of an army signals authorising the 1st Australian Wireless Squadron to proceed for embarkation and repatriation. This signal is a typical example of the thoroughness of the Lines of Communication in Mesopotamia.
Portrait of 20555 Sapper Eric Keast Burke of D Troop 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron standing outside the office of Australian Representative, Captain Wickham, for Australian Imperial Force in
D Troop, 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron, at Basrah showing typical EP tents. Note the deep tracks in the mud.
Members of the 'D' Troop 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron leaving camp at Makina (near Basrah) en route embarkation to Bombay.
A copy of a typical page of the Baghdad Telephone Directory for 1918, which gives an indication of the vast extent of British activities in the area. This page was specially selected because it showed
The South Gate or Bas-es-Sharqi, near the horse lines camp of the D Troop 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron.
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
