The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 Australia. In the foreground is Sapper J. T. O'Donnell (left) and Lance Corporal Albert Frank Woollard. (Donor G. F. Engel)
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
SERAPEUM, EGYPT. C. 1916. AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS CONSTRUCTING A DEFENSIVE TRENCH SYSTEM CLOSE TO THE SUEZ CANAL.
Soldiers completing a trench system forming part of the Suez Canal defences. Timber reinforcing (revetment) was used extensively in an attempt to prevent the fine sand falling back into the trenches.
SUEZ CANAL, 1916. HMS CORNWALLIS IN THE SUEZ CANAL. IN FOREGROUND IS A BARGE BELONGING TO THE 7TH AUSTRALIAN FIELD COMPANY ENGINEERS.
The tent lines in the camp of the 3rd Regiment, Australian Light Horse on the Suez Canal. In the left foreground lies the kitbag of 3190 Sapper John Rutherford Parr, 7th Field Company Engineers.
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
