The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Original filters at the water purification plant at Kantara in the Sinai Peninsula where water from the Sweet water Canal went through several processes to provide potable water to be taken to the front by pipeline on water train.
Filters in the water purification plant at Kantara in the Sinai Peninsula where water from the Sweet water Canal was purified by straining, clarified by alum, filtered through sand under pressure and
A view of the Suez Canal looking north, showing the Kantara filter plant in the foreground and the railway station just beyond the palm trees. A camp is to the left of the railway station. The strip
EGYPT. C. 1916. ARMY ENGINEERS BUILDING A WOODEN BRIDGE OVER THE SWEET WATER CANAL. THIS WAS A FRESH WATER CANAL RUNNING FROM THE ISMAILIA CANAL TO A POINT CLOSE TO THE SUEZ CANAL NEAR KANTARA.
Engineers and local men working on a reservoir on the line of piping which carried the Nile water across the desert from Kantara, Egypt, to Kalm, near Shellal, in Palestine. At this spot the water wa
The first train to Jerusalem after the line had been built by Australians. The line started from Kantara on the Suez Canal and was designed for the movement of troops and supplies for operations in S
A line of camels carrying supplies from Serapeum, on the Suez Canal, to the defence post at Bir el Habeita, several miles east in the desert. The camels are possibly carrying flat tanks of water (fan
