The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Two unidentified Australian soldiers use a pulley to draw water from an old well for the use of nearby gun crews of an Australian battery. The man on the left has one foot on the circular wall of the well.
Beersheba, Palestine, 1917-11. Australian soldiers stand among the ruins of a pumping plant blown up by the Turks shortly before the 4th and 12th Light Horse Regiments captured the town. The plant was
A Japanese man and two Japanese women pull on a rope while a second man pulls up a bucket of water from a well. The rope is running through a pulley at the top of a frame which sits above the well.
Large group of soldiers of A Battery, 2/35th US Artillery, gathered for a church service at Fire Support Base (FSB) Coral. Rigged up in the left foreground is a shower for use in the field. It consist
A group of unidentified men of the 12th Light Horse Regiment draw water from a 70 foot deep well outside a mosque.
One of the gun crews of an English battery in Palestine ramming the shell into the breech of their 4.5 inch howitzer. The man on the left-hand side in the foreground is about to insert the cartridge c
A group of unidentified Australian soldiers, some of them probably engineers or mechanics, repairing the pump used to draw water from a well in Shrapnel Valley. This is one of two tube wells sunk at t
