B00238
Photograph B00238 First World War, 1914-1918A naked member of A Squadron, 9th Australian Light Horse, enjoying a shower bath at Ain Duk, in the Jordan Valley. The water is carried overhead from a wooden aqueduct.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
An ancient aqueduct in the Jordan Valley at Ain Duk, near the 9th Australian Light Horse camp. Note the canalisation of the stream in the foreground.
A naked member of A Squadron, 9th Australian Light Horse, enjoying a shower bath at Ain Duk, in the Jordan Valley. The water is carried overhead from a wooden aqueduct.

Watering horses of A Squadron, 9th Australian Light Horse from a canvas trough, at Ain Duk, in the Jordan Valley.

A view of Ain Duk Gorge near Jericho, in the Jordan Valley.

View of Ain Duk in the Jordan Valley, near the Mount of Temptation.

AIN DUK, JORDAN VALLEY. C. 1917. THE PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS CANALIZATION OF A STREAM CARRIED OUT BY AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS TO PREVENT THE WATER BECOMING STAGNANT AND REDUCING THE RISK OF AN OUTBREAK OF MALARI

Near Jericho, Ain Duk in the Jordan Valley foothills. The spring gushes from desert hillside.
