The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
There was a ferry across the Suez Canal at Ismailia. The Australians built a bridge here in the winter of 1914-1915, and it was one of the chief posts along the canal and the headquarters of the 2nd Division. This year the garrison line was built miles out in the desert. The floating bridge is here shown closed.
The floating bridge, built by the Australians on the Suez Canal, being opened. This was one of the chief posts of the garrison and the headquarters of the 2nd Division before the line was shifted out
The pontoon bridge across the Suez Canal at Ferry Post, near Ismailia.
The 2nd Division occupied Ferry Post, Ismailia. Here the men are seen loading trucks on a railway which was built from Ferry Post to the garrison lines in the desert.
THE BARGE, WHICH CONNECTED FERRY POST AND ISMAILIA, CARRYING A MOTOR-LORRY ACROSS THE SUEZ CANAL. (DONATED BY CAPTAIN J.D. CRAMB.)
The desert end of the railway which connected Ferry Post, Ismailia, with the garrison line.
At the end of the patrol line connecting Ferry Post, Ismailia, with the garrison line in the desert, was a very light Decauville line leading further into the desert. The engines were very small.
