The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 into the desert.
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 D
The train from the garrison line, which had been shifted well into the desert after the evacuation of Gallipoli, arriving at Ferry Post, Ismailia.
SUEZ CANAL, EGYPT. 1943-01. 9TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISION HEADQUARTERS CONVOY CROSSING THE SUEZ CANAL EN ROUTE FROM PALESTINE TO A STAGING CAMP IN THE CANAL ZONE PRIOR TO EMBARKATION FOR AUSTRALIA. THIS BRI
A trench in the front line near the Suez Canal. On the left edge of the trench can be seen several posts for attaching barbed wire and a loose trailing piece of wire. The sandy desert terrain made t
View of the railway swing bridge opened over the Suez Canal.
Barges at the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force Headquarters on the Suez Canal near Ismailia. The boats were loaded with limestone for building roads to the defence posts in the desert to the east.
