P02041.007 Accession Number: P02041.007

Description

Damaged Turkish motor lorries lay strewn across the railway line at El Auja (Auja el Hafir) after Australian airplanes fired upon them. The railway line was blown up by members of the Camel Brigade and C Squadron, 11th Australian Light Horse Regiment (11ALH), who spent four days on a demolition raid to destroy the railway line running south from Beersheba to Ashluj and Auja.

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Accession Number
P02041.007
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Film copy negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
May 1917
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor N MacDonald
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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