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Photograph J02819 First World War, 1914-1918BARBED WIRE ENTANGLEMENTS ERECTED BY BRITISH INFANTRY NEAR RAFA, SINAI DESERT. RAFA WAS OCCUPIED ON 1917-01-09. (DONATED BY MR. F.H. SMITH.)

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
WESTERN DESERT. INFANTRY BREAKING THROUGH BARBED WIRE ENTANGLEMENTS.
BARBED WIRE ENTANGLEMENTS ERECTED BY BRITISH INFANTRY NEAR RAFA, SINAI DESERT. RAFA WAS OCCUPIED ON 1917-01-09. (DONATED BY MR. F.H. SMITH.)

Habeita, Sinai Desert. Soldiers driving wooden stakes into the sand to attach barbed wire entanglements.
A patrol from the 2/13th Infantry Battalion making its way through a gap in the barbed wire entanglements protecting its Unit position in Tobruk.

Barbed wire entanglements made by Australian troops as part of the Suez Canal defences in the desert east of the canal.

British Mk IV male tanks attacking the German trenches on the Western Front. Barbed wire entanglements are in the foreground.
British Mk IV male tanks attacking the German trenches on the Western Front. Barbed wire entanglements are in the foreground.