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Photograph B03047 First World War, 1914-1918Expansion joints for pipes being laid to carry water across the desert.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
An expansion joint for pipes being laid to carry water across the desert.
Expansion joints for pipes being laid to carry water across the desert.

Water pipes (mostly 12 inch) being sorted and loaded onto railway trucks. The pipes were laid across the Sinai Desert, from the Kantara pumping station to Mazar.

Pipes laid down at the railhead in the desert at Serapeum, to carry supplies of water to the units at the outlying posts.
A view of Mazar, on the Sinai Desert, showing canvas water storage tanks alongside the railway line. Pipes are used to fill portable water cans (right), around which are standing a number of soldiers

WESTERN DESERT, EGYPT. 1942-11-05. WATER PIPES TO CARRY THE WATER LINE FOREWARD TO THE ADVANCING ARMY.

Part of the line of 12 inch piping through which water was run across the Sinai Desert from Kantara. The sand embarkment served the dual purpose of preventing expansion of the pipes under the intense
