The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Baqubah (Baquba), Mesopotamia (Iraq) . 1918. Unidentified Australian members of No. 2 Station, 1st Wireless Signal Squadron, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, around a table on which are a number of beer and wine bottles. The original caption describes the occasion as `Eleven o'clock refreshments'. The wagon acted as a general communications control station for the Force during 1918 and January 1919, connected to Squadron Headquarters (SHQ) by an old Turkish landline. (Donor E. Keast Burke)
Baqubah (Baquba), Mesopotamia. 1918. Drivers of No. 2 Station, 1st Wireless Signal Squadron, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, swimming in the Diala (Diyala) River. The wagon acted as a general commun
Baqubah (Baquba), Mesopotamia. 1918. Members of No. 2 Station, 1st Wireless Signal Squadron, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, dress up in shirts and mosquito nets recently received in a case of comfo
Baqubah (Baquba), Mesopotamia. 1918. A member of No. 2 Station, 1st Wireless Signal Squadron, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, in a cook house (kitchen). Note the kerosene tins and boxes used for sto
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
Mesopotamia. c. 1917. A horse drawn instrument wagon containing a mobile wireless set with a member of the 1st Wireless Signal Squadron, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, standing under a makeshift sh
Baghdad, Mesopotamia. c. 1918-06. Rear view of two Ford vans with wireless pack set equipment connected ready for transmitting. Beside the vehicles are their drivers from No. 14 Light Motor Station, 1
