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Photograph A01613 First World War, 1914-1918Australian Light Horsemen watering their horses. The water was pumped from wells into portable canvas troughs. A horse column is descending the hill.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Australian Light Horsemen receiving their water issue at Aber San el Kebir. Note the filled portable canvas water bags in the foreground.
Australian Light Horsemen watering their horses. The water was pumped from wells into portable canvas troughs. A horse column is descending the hill.

A view of the Australian Light Horse camp. Note the man made oasis (foreground) with water pumps to fill the portable canvas drinking troughs for their horses.

Members of the 1st Australian Light Horse Brigade watering their horses using portable canvas water troughs which have been filled from a local well after the town had been captured.

Horse lines waiting their turn to be led to the hand filled portable canvas watering troughs in the desert at Arnussi.

A group of Australian pioneers returning by light railway to their dugouts near Ypres, after having been engaged on work near the front line. Note the large crater filled with water in the foreground.

Palestine. c. 1917. Horse drawn carts with water tanks are filled from a river, possibly by members of the 5th Light Horse Brigade. Note the large canvas containers on the edge of the water and the pu
