The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 months here on intensive training before embarking for Gallipoli in April 1915.
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
A sea of bell shaped eight person Indian production (EPIP) tents at the AIF camp between Cairo and the Suez Canal. A few men can be seen between the tents.
The 9th Battalion camp in the desert about 10 miles from Cairo. On the far right is one of the pyramids at nearby Giza. Note the bell shaped eight person Indian production (EPIP) tents. In front of
A general view of the parade during General Sir Ian Hamilton's review of the 1st Division, taken from the far end of Mena Camp, 10 miles from Cairo. General Hamilton was supreme commander of the Alli
The camp of the 2nd Training Battalion near Cairo. The tents are of the eight person Indian production (EPIP) type.
Habeita. Carinya Camp, a Suez Canal defence post on the front line about 12 miles east of the canal. There is a shelter for horses on the left. Rows of rocks separate the lines of eight person Indi
