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Photograph B00287 First World War, 1914-1918A village scene at Semakh, South Coast, Sea of Galilee, showing the Australian Light Horse mode of carrying water, using canvas bags hanging from the feet of the Lighthorseman.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Dead horses at Semakh, on South Coast, Sea of Galilee, after a charge by the 11th Australian Light Horse.
A village scene at Semakh, South Coast, Sea of Galilee, showing the Australian Light Horse mode of carrying water, using canvas bags hanging from the feet of the Lighthorseman.

A view from one of the windows of a house in Semakh, South Coast, Sea of Galilee, from which machine guns were fired on the Australian Light Horse, showing the wall used as a barricade by the enemy.

George Lambert described Semakh as: "... a railway-station of picturesque conglomeration of not more than usually dirty Arab huts, and a few tents and horses of the occupation people on the shore, sou

Australian soldiers at the railway station at Semakh, South Coast, Sea of Galilee. It was a scene of great slaughter of the enemy.

Storm threatening over the Sea of Galilee. After the fight at Semakh, the 4th Light Horse Brigade advanced north along the western edge of the Sea of Galilee towards the ancient town of Tiberias. Simu

A watercolour of Semakh on the south coast of the Sea of Galilee. A house sits on a cliff overlooking the water, with tents and another building visible in the background.