The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
El Arish, Sinai. 1916. An Australian Army officer holding a bomb which had been dropped from a German aircraft.
An officer, possibly Lieutenant Leon Maurice Lyons, mounted on a pony that was captured from the Turks when British forces crossed the Sinai Desert and captured El Arish in Palestine in December 1916.
El Arish was a large village on the coastal route across the Sinai desert about forty-five miles south west of Gaza. In 1916 El Arish had been under Turkish rule for two years,and was captured by the
El Arish, Sinai. c. 1916. The location in which the 1st Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance camped on its first night in the area. (Donor Major A.E. Machin)
El Arish, Sinai. 1916. The railway station was a rail head in the early stages of the Sinai, Palestine campaign. (Donor Major A.E. Machin)
EL ARISH, SINAI. C. 1916. TWO SOLDIERS STAND BY AS WATER IS BEING DRAWN FROM THE TOWN WELL. (DONOR J. HUNTER)
Darwin, NT, 1942-06-26. Wreckage of the Sergeants' Quarters of the unit that produced the army newspaper, "Army News", which had been destroyed by a bomb dropped during an air raid by Japanese aircraf
