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Photograph H02865 First World War, 1914-1918Bir el Mazar, Sinai. c. 1916. The interior of a water supply pumping room. (Donor W.M. Ellis)

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Mazar, Sinai. 1916-12. Native workers constructing a 250,000 gallon water tank to support troops in the area (Donor W.M. Ellis).
Bir el Mazar, Sinai. c. 1916. The interior of a water supply pumping room. (Donor W.M. Ellis)

Bir el Abd, Sinai. c. 1916. Water pumps at a railway siding temporarily installed to fill army water tankers until the railway could be extended further across the desert to Mazar. (Donor W.M. Ellis)

Lower Egypt. c. 1916. Palm trees and a building reflected in a water storage holding. (Donor W.M. Ellis)

Bir el Abd, Sinai. c. 1916. The Bir el Abd railway station. There are some Australian soldiers on the left of the photograph and some others beyond the water tank in the middle distance. (Donor W. Ell

Suez Canal Zone, Egypt. c. 1916. A pier at the quarantine station. (Donor W.M. Ellis)

The construction of a reservoir at Mazar, which was to hold 250,000 gallons of water. A camp is in the background (right).
