The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Informal portrait of 566 Sapper (Spr) Thomas Charles Kelso, of Albury, NSW, 1st Australian Light Railway Operating Company. Spr Kelso enlisted on 20 December 1916 aged 40 and embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Ballarat on 19 February 1917. He was injured on the Western Front which resulted in the loss of an eye. He recuperated in England and returned to Australia on board HMAT Kamala on 1 July 1919.
Two Australian soldiers standing in front of a diesel or petrol powered Simplex, 40 horse power armoured locomotive tractor which was manufactured by the Motor Rail & Tramcar Company Limited in Bedfor
Two Australian soldiers standing next to a narrow gauge petrol-electric locomotive manufactured by Dick, Kerr and Company of Kilmarnock, Scotland (right). The soldier smoking is possibly 566 Sapper Th
An unidentified Australian soldier working alongside a narrow gauge American Locomotive Corporation (ALCO) 2-6-2T steam locomotive with the serial number 1204 and the works number 57095 (not visible)
An unidentified engineer from one of the Australian Light Railway Operating Companies standing in a Baldwin, narrow gauge 4-6-0T steam locomotive, with the serial number 870 and the works number 44871
Unidentified Australians attached to the 1st Australian Light Railway Operating Company preparing prefabricated panels of light railway track. A light steam locomotive can be seen in the background.
A diesel or petrol powered Simplex, 40 horse power armoured locomotive tractor with the serial number LR2275, which was manufactured by The Motor Rail & Tramcar Company, Limited in Bedford England. Th
