The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Baghdad, Mesopotamia. 1917-03-12. Sign on the wall of a former German wireless station which was extensively damaged by the retreating forces. The sign reads `God punish England!!'. Members of the 1st Wireless Signals Squadron, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, had hoped to use the buildings and masts but they were beyond repair.
Baghdad, Mesopotamia. 1917-03-11. Extensively damaged buildings and equipment in the yard of the railway station. Note the smoke rising from stores in the background set alight by the retreating Germa
Baghdad, Mesopotamia. 1917-03-11. Ruins of the buildings and masts of a former German wireless station south of the city. Squadron Headquarters (SHQ) of the 1st Wireless Signal Squadron, Mesopotamian
Samarra (Samarrah), Mesopotamia. 1917-04-23. Interior of a railway engine shed extensively damaged by fires set alight by retreating Turkish troops. Standing amongst the rubble is a soldier, possibly
Chaldari, Baghdad, Mesopotamia. c. 1918-06. Informal group portrait of members of No. 7 Station, 1st Wireless Signals Squadron, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, at the British Cavalry summer headquar
Baghdad, Mesopotamia. 1917-03-11. `E' Wagon, a horse drawn mobile wireless station of the 1st Wireless Signal Squadron, with British III Corps troops leading, moves down a track during the advance on
Baghdad, Mesopotamia. 1917-03. Captain Michael James Hillary OBE DSO, 1st Wireless Signal Squadron, speaks with an operator at mobile wireless `C' Station erected during operations on the Diala and Kh
