The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 Khalis Canal. The unit was operating with the British Cavalry Division (6th and 7th Cavalry Brigades), part of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force. Note the reels on which the aerial wire was wound and the wireless apparatus in use below the mast.
Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia. c. 1917-01. A wireless aerial erected half mast by members of the 1st Wireless Signal Squadron behind members of the British Cavalry Division (6th and 7th Cavalry Brigades)
Hai-Town, Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia. 1917-02. Members of `H' Station, 1st Wireless Signal Squadron, with a mobile wireless mast they had erected to contact Headquarters (GHQ) of the British Cavalry Di
MESOPOTAMIA. C. 1917. MEMBERS OF THE 1ST AUSTRALIAN WIRELESS SIGNAL SQUADRON, MESOPOTAMIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, BESIDE A MOBILE GENERATOR OUTSIDE THEIR WIRELESS TENT. NOTE THE OPERATOR, POSSIBLY WITH
MESOPOTAMIA. C. 1917. MEMBERS OF THE 1ST AUSTRALIAN WIRELESS SIGNAL SQUADRON, MESOPOTAMIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, ERECT A MAST FOR A FIELD MOBILE WIRELESS STATION.
Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia. 1916-12-12. A lone soldier looks across the open plains of the Sinn Banks at the beginning of operations against the Turkish Army by members of the British Cavalry Division
MESOPOTAMIA. C. 1917. WIRELESS OPERATOR AND INSTRUMENT PANEL OF A HORSE DRAWN MOBILE LORRY WIRELESS SET USED BY THE 1ST AUSTRALIAN WIRELESS SIGNAL SQUADRON, MESOPOTAMIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.
