The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A young local newspaper vendor, a daily visitor to Mena Camp outside Cairo who urged the men to buy 'Egyptian Times tomorrow!'. He is holding two copies of the Cairo Herald and another newspaper whose title is unclear, but could be The Mail. behind his are rows of tents, beyond which can be seen one of the pyramids at Giza.
The fuel depot run by the 1st Australian Divisional Train at Mena Camp. Fatigue parties, assisted by Egyptian labourers, are unloading timber from horse drawn wagons in the foreground, near piles of r
The fuel depot run by the 1st Australian Divisional Train at Mena Camp. Fatigue parties, assisted by Egyptian labourers, are unloading timber from horse drawn wagons in the foreground, near piles of r
Elevated view of a church parade at Mena Camp in the desert ten miles from Cairo. Rows of bell shaped eight person Indian production (EPIP) tents can be seen in the background. The AIF spent several
View of Mena Camp, ten miles from Cairo, where Australian troops came for several months of intensive training before embarking for the Gallipoli Peninsula. Transport lines of the 1st Australian Field
84 newspaper cuttings collected largely by Lady Janetta Gonville Hope Birdwood covering Australian actions that included Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood, from a cross section of the First World Wa
This file contains a bundle of items that were originally interspersed through the pages of Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood’s 1918 diary. These items include name cards, newspaper clippings and of
