The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Serapeum, Egypt. 4 January 1916. Members of the 5th Field Company, Australian Engineers, building a landing stage on the east side of the Suez Canal. On the left is Sapper (Spr) J. F. O'Donnell using a wooden mallet while Spr H. McIntyre waits with another pylon. Corporal Frederick Garner Thorpe is on the right, arms folded behind back. (Donor G. F. Engel)
Serapeum, Egypt. 4 January 1916. Members of the 5th Field Company, Australian Engineers, building a landing stage on the bank of the Suez Canal. In the water, left to right: Sapper J. McLean; Spr Geor
The 5th Field Company Engineers putting down low wire entanglements in front of the trench system, forming part of the Suez Canal, the first defensive post the company worked on after leaving Australi
SERAPEUM, SUEZ CANAL. 1916-04-25. ONE OF THE BOATS, NAMED 'SAPPER', SPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR THE ANZAC AQUATIC CARNIVAL BY THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS. NOTE THE CROWD OF ONLOOKERS ON THE SHORE. (DONO
Kantara, Egypt. 23 December 1915. Members of the 5th Field Company, Australian Engineers, on regrading work, the first task carried out by the Company. The soldier in the immediate foreground is a Ghu
Sick men being evacuated from a Suez Canal defence post to Serapeum, 9 miles away. Three of the camels are carrying the patients in a sitting position in wooden cacolets; there is also a sand cart, i
The 4th Australian Divisional sports on the Suez Canal at Serapeum, Egypt, on Anzac Day 1916. The officer second from the left aboard the ship is the Prince of Wales.
