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Photograph H02640 First World War, 1914-1918SINAI DESERT. 1916. AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSE ENGINEERS ASSEMBLING THE FRAMEWORK FOR A WELL.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Three Australian engineers on the Sinai Desert, building the framework for a well with corrugated iron.
SINAI DESERT. 1916. AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSE ENGINEERS ASSEMBLING THE FRAMEWORK FOR A WELL.

Unidentified Australian Light Horse engineers sinking the framework of a well into the sand, on the Sinai Desert. The soldier on the left is smoking a pipe.

A soldier kneels next to a horse drawn Australian designed sledge constructed from corrugated iron. This type of construction was the pattern for sledges used in the Sinai campaign by field ambulance

Watten, QLD, 1942. The operating theatre (left) and, connected to it, the X-Ray Department of the 2/2nd Australian General Hospital (2/2AGH). The operating theatre is built of corrugated iron, while t

Habeita, Sinai Desert. Officers' dug-outs in the desert. Three shovels are against the wall of the building on the left.
South Africa, c. 1901. A two storey fortified house at Middelburg during the South African (Boer) War. The ground floor veranda has been fortified with sandbags and corrugated iron. Note the firing sl
