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A Caudron G III aircraft leaving Basra for the attack on Nasiriyah. The aircraft in the ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
A Caudron G III aircraft leaving Basra for the attack on Nasiriyah. The aircraft in the foreground is piloted by Lieutenant G P Merz , the other by Major H L Reilly of the Indian Army. Through the gr...A02263
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A man whose family died when his house was bombed in a Basrah suburb
Art
Maker: Connor, Kevin
Portrait of an unidentified man beside a bomb damaged house, with other buildings in the background in Basrah. The man's family died when the bombing occurred.ART29752.048
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Asham Creek, Basra
Art
Maker: Barker, David Crothers
Illustration showing boats at the waters edge. One arrives as one departs. On the far cliff can be seen a market place.ART00079
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Basra, Mesopotamia. 1918. Aerial view of the port of Ashar with the Shatt-el-Arab in the ...
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Basra, Mesopotamia. 1918. Aerial view of the port of Ashar with the Shatt-el-Arab in the foreground. Note the ocean going vessels and the dockyards of the Inland Water Transport. Basra (Basrah) was th...P00562.014
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Bombed highway south of Basrah, near the Kuwaiti border
Art
Maker: Connor, Kevin
Tank, debris and a generally desolate environment of the highway south of Basrah.ART29752.052
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Collection of First World War negatives purchased from Eric Keast Burke (Keast Burke)
Photograph
Maker: Burke, Eric Keast
Visit of members of D Troop, 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron to the Sanitation Section, Makina near Basrah. Here models of cookhouses, incinerators, latrines, and other facilities had been b...J01968
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Collection of First World War negatives purchased from Eric Keast Burke (Keast Burke)
Photograph
Maker: Burke, Eric Keast
Members of D Troop, 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron, arriving No 2 Alexandria Docks, Bombay ex Basrah, from HM Ambulance Transport, Varela. The soldier in the foreground is Sapper Jack Tibbet...J01979
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Collection of First World War negatives purchased from Eric Keast Burke (Keast Burke)
Photograph
Maker: Burke, Eric Keast
Portrait of 20555 Sapper Eric Keast Burke, 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron looking north east to the palm groves of Magil, from the summit of a disused brick kiln.J01969
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Collection of First World War negatives purchased from Eric Keast Burke (Keast Burke)
Photograph
Maker: Burke, Eric Keast
The town of Amarah as seen from the river. Amarah was an important town on the Tigris River, about 130 miles from Basrah. The town was an important military centre, in the early part of the 20th Ce...J01985
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Collection of First World War negatives purchased from Eric Keast Burke (Keast Burke)
Photograph
Maker: Burke, Eric Keast
D Troop 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron at Magil, Basrah where a party of men are engaged on practice drill on the erection of a 70 foot mast for wagon type field wireless station.J01972
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Collection of First World War negatives purchased from Eric Keast Burke (Keast Burke)
Photograph
Maker: Burke, Eric Keast
An unidentified soldier from D Troop 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron Troop standing in the narrow bazaar streets of Ashar, Basrah.J01962
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Collection of First World War negatives purchased from Eric Keast Burke (Keast Burke)
Photograph
Maker: Burke, Eric Keast
Portrait of 20555 Sapper Eric Keast Burke of D Troop standing on the boat deck, looking at the alleged Tree of Knowledge on the waterfront near the political officers' headquarters at Kurnah, the junc...J01983
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Collection of First World War negatives purchased from Eric Keast Burke (Keast Burke)
Photograph
Maker: Burke, Eric Keast
Group of unidentified men from D Troop 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron at Magil, Basrah, digging paths and drains in their camp, where they were caught in the mud. This mud is considered to b...J01973
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Collection of First World War negatives purchased from Eric Keast Burke (Keast Burke)
Photograph
Maker: Burke, Eric Keast
The HMAT Varsova returning to Bombay as seen from a bellum (small native canoe) out in the stream of the Shatt-al-Arab, Basrah.J01963
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Collection of First World War negatives purchased from Eric Keast Burke (Keast Burke)
Photograph
Maker: Burke, Eric Keast
Portrait of 20555 Sapper Eric Keast Burke, 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron on cooks fatigue stiring the breakfast porridge.J01970
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Collection of First World War negatives purchased from Eric Keast Burke (Keast Burke)
Photograph
Maker: Burke, Eric Keast
D Troop, 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron, at Basrah showing typical EP tents. Note the deep tracks in the mud.J01971
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Collection of First World War negatives purchased from Eric Keast Burke (Keast Burke)
Photograph
Maker: Burke, Eric Keast
Portrait of Sapper E White in a street along the creek waterway at Ashar, Basrah. Unable to further identify Sapper White.J01961
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Collection of First World War negatives purchased from Eric Keast Burke (Keast Burke)
Photograph
Maker: Burke, Eric Keast
Date palms growing on the irrigation canals near Basrah.J01967
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Collection of First World War negatives purchased from Eric Keast Burke (Keast Burke)
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Portrait of 20555 Sapper Eric Keast Burke of D Troop 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron inspecting the sign for Caomp No 2 at Magil, Basrah. There is mud caked on the ground and near the notice ...J01974
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Collection of First World War negatives purchased from Eric Keast Burke (Keast Burke)
Photograph
Maker: Burke, Eric Keast
Looking down from the Whiteley Bridge onto the Ashar Creek at Basrah. The creek teams with bellums (native canoes) used extensively on the waters around Basrah, earning them the title of 'the Venice o...J01964
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Collection of First World War negatives purchased from Eric Keast Burke (Keast Burke)
Photograph
Maker: Burke, Eric Keast
Members of the 'D' Troop 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron leaving camp at Makina (near Basrah) en route embarkation to Bombay.J01960
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Collection of First World War negatives purchased from Eric Keast Burke (Keast Burke)
Photograph
Maker: Burke, Eric Keast
An Indian seaman swinging the lead off the island of Kais, in the Persian Gulf. This was part of an attempt to extricate the 'Kamoning', which had gone ashore in the gale the previous night. The atte...J01975
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Collection of First World War negatives purchased from Eric Keast Burke (Keast Burke)
Photograph
Maker: Burke, Eric Keast
Typical inland water transport river tug (number ST25) and barge seen from the deck of HMAT Varsova. A fleet of 1600 vessels was maintained on the two rivers.J01965
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Collection of First World War negatives purchased from Eric Keast Burke (Keast Burke)
Photograph
Maker: Burke, Eric Keast
Members of D Troop, 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron, stacking kit bags prior to leaving Ma'agil, Basrah to go upriver.J01981
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Colonel Donuan, known as 'Pistol Pete', Dunsterforce, taking the salute at the rehersal of a ...
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Maker: Unknown
Colonel Donuan, known as 'Pistol Pete', Dunsterforce, taking the salute at the rehersal of a general parade at Ashar, Basra.J01340
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Diary of Thomas Walter White, May-September 1915
Digitised Collection
Maker: White, Thomas Walter
Diary [Busra] relating to the First World War service of Captain Thomas Walter White, Mesopotamian Half Flight, Australian Flying Corps. The notebook covers the period May and September 1915, the peri...RCDIG0001029
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Group of officer, mainly Dusterforce men, onboard ship leaving Basra on their way home. Those ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Group of officer, mainly Dusterforce men, onboard ship leaving Basra on their way home. Those identified are Captain Kendal, centre front, smoking; Private Robson, an Australian, not Dunsterforce, cen...J01318
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Group of officers, mainly Dunsterforce men, onboard ship leaving Basra on their way home. ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Group of officers, mainly Dunsterforce men, onboard ship leaving Basra on their way home. Identified from left to right: Officer turned on side is believed to be Captain (Capt) Ernest William Latchfor...J01321
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Group of officers, mainly Dusterforce men, onboard ship leaving Basra on their way home. Second ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Group of officers, mainly Dusterforce men, onboard ship leaving Basra on their way home. Second from left is Captain Richard Henry Hooper, MC, originally 58th Battalion.J01319
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Group portrait of Australian Dunsterforce officers at Mekinah, Basrah. They are left to right: ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Group portrait of Australian Dunsterforce officers at Mekinah, Basrah. They are left to right: Back Row; Captain William Francis McIver, originally 50th Battalion; Captain Eric George Scott-Olsen, or...J01288
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Informal group portrait of from left; Captain Henry Alloysius Petre of the Australian Flying ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Informal group portrait of from left; Captain Henry Alloysius Petre of the Australian Flying Corps, Captain Thomas Walter White (later POW) of the Australian Flying Corps, Lieutenant H Christian of th...A02253
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Jets and suburbia, Basrah
Art
Maker: Connor, Kevin
Portrait of a screaming man's face. His mouth is wide open, and he has his hand to his chin. Bomb damaged buildings surround him, with black smoke emerging from the wreckage. The man depicted is mo...ART29752.049
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KUWAIT, 1991-03-09. "DEATH HIGHWAY", THE ROAD LEADING NORTH FROM KUWAIT CITY TO BASRA IN IRAQ. ...
Photograph
Maker: McWatters, Anthony J
KUWAIT, 1991-03-09. "DEATH HIGHWAY", THE ROAD LEADING NORTH FROM KUWAIT CITY TO BASRA IN IRAQ. THE ROAD IS STREWN WITH VEHICLES DESTROYED AND ABANDONED IN THE IRAQI FLIGHT FROM KUWAIT DURING THE GULF ...P01663.084
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Letters and typescript copies from Florence Hobbes to her family, 1915-1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Hobbes, Florence Narrelle Jessie
File of letters and typescript copies relating to the service, during the First World War, of Sister Florence Narrelle Jessie Hobbes, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service. In these lett...RCDIG0001364
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Letters from Florence Narrelle Jessie Hobbes to family, 5 May 1915-7 July 1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: Hobbes, Florence Narrelle Jessie
Letters relating to the service, during the First World War, of Sister Florence Narrelle Jessie Hobbes, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. In these letters written between 5 ...RCDIG0001355
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Local people unloading by hand, heavily laden boats on the Ashar Creek at Ashar in the Port of ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Local people unloading by hand, heavily laden boats on the Ashar Creek at Ashar in the Port of Basrah, on the Shatel-Arab.J01258
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Magil, Basra, Mesopotamia. 1916-07. Informal parade of members of the 1st Wireless Signal ...
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Magil, Basra, Mesopotamia. 1916-07. Informal parade of members of the 1st Wireless Signal Squadron, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force. Their numbers were depleted because of illness, fatigue due to the...P00562.015
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Magil, Basra, Mesopotamia. 1919-01. One of the last parades of the 1st Wireless Signal Squadron, ...
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Magil, Basra, Mesopotamia. 1919-01. One of the last parades of the 1st Wireless Signal Squadron, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, before demobilisation, beneath the palm trees of the military encampm...P00562.153
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Magil, Basra, Mesopotamia. 1916-08-04. Wireless operators turned stable hands of the 1st Wireless ...
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Magil, Basra, Mesopotamia. 1916-08-04. Wireless operators turned stable hands of the 1st Wireless Signal Squadron, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, stop work to look at the camera while shovelling mo...P00562.017
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Makina, Basra, Mesopotamia. 1916-07. Members of the 1st Wireless Signal Squadron, Mesopotamian ...
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Makina, Basra, Mesopotamia. 1916-07. Members of the 1st Wireless Signal Squadron, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, prepare to take part in a mess parade near their tent lines.P00562.016
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Ourmat Ali, Basra, Mesopotamia. c. 1917-01. The railway station at Ourmat Ali (?Gurmat Ali) which ...
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Ourmat Ali, Basra, Mesopotamia. c. 1917-01. The railway station at Ourmat Ali (?Gurmat Ali) which was an important railway and shipping centre. Note the two men in uniform in the small railway cart ap...P00562.027
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Parker, Charles Allen (Captain, MC, 5th LHR, AIF and Royal Fld Arty Attached: 11 Sqn RFC b.1889 - d.1918)
Private Record
Maker: Parker, Charles Allen
COPY OF AIF DISCHARGE CERTIFICATE, COMBAT REPORT, CITATION FOR HIS MC AND DETAILS SURROUNDING THE DEATH OF CAPT PARKER NEAR BASRA, MESOPOTAMIA IN FEB 1918PR84/351
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Parker, Gilbert Alexander (Sapper, b.1897 - d.?)
Private Record
Maker: Parker, Gilbert Alexander
Collection relating to the First World War service of 16027 Sapper Gilbert Alexander Parker, 1st Wireless Squadron, AIF, Australia and Middle East, 1916-1918. Collection consists of a maroon-coloure...PR03843
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Photographs relating to Florence Hobbes, c 1915-1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: Hobbes, Florence Narrelle Jessie
File containing a photograph album and photographs relating to the service, during the First World War, of Sister Florence Narrelle Jessie Hobbes, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service. ...RCDIG0001367
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Portrait of Major Fred Starnes, one of the Dunsterforce leaders, previously of the New Zealand ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Portrait of Major Fred Starnes, one of the Dunsterforce leaders, previously of the New Zealand army (left) and Colonel Donuan (right) at Asphar Barracks at Basra.J01339
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Postcards collected by Lydia Joan Birdwood between 1901 and 1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Various Birdwood, Lydia Joan
This album of postcards contains 37 postcards that were collected by Lydia Joan Birdwood. Joan Birdwood was Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood’s niece. The postcards are addressed to various recipien...RCDIG0000057
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Road to Basrah
Art
Maker: Connor, Kevin
Figure lying on the ground, head in hands. The image is reflective of Connor's observations of the effect of war.ART29752.041
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SYRIA. 1941-12. THIS SIGN WAS ON A RAILWAY TRUCK SEEN IN MEDAIN EKBES. IT READS "TRANSIT TO NEW ...
Photograph
SYRIA. 1941-12. THIS SIGN WAS ON A RAILWAY TRUCK SEEN IN MEDAIN EKBES. IT READS "TRANSIT TO NEW YORK VIA BAGHDAD AND BASRAH".021845
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The Last Post Ceremony commemorating the service of (23) Air Mechanic William Henry Lord, Australian Flying Corps, First World War.
Film
Maker: Australian War Memorial
The Last Post Ceremony is presented in the Commemorative area of the Australian War Memorial each day. The ceremony commemorates more than 102,000 Australians who have given their lives in war and oth...AWM2021.1.1.89
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The Last Post Ceremony commemorating the service of (7679) Driver Bert Clayton Martyn, 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron, AIF, First World War.
Film
Maker: Australian War Memorial
The Last Post Ceremony is presented in the Commemorative area of the Australian War Memorial each day. The ceremony commemorates more than 102,000 Australians who have given their lives in war and oth...AWM2018.1.1.79
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The Last Post Ceremony commemorating the service of (14286) Lance Corporal Leonard Charles Elias, 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron, AIF, First World War.
Film
Maker: Australian War Memorial
The Last Post Ceremony is presented in the Commemorative area of the Australian War Memorial each day. The ceremony commemorates more than 102,000 Australians who have given their lives in war and oth...AWM2017.1.308
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The road to Basrah
Art
Maker: Kostelnik, Dragan
An abstract black and white print which depicts the un-easy, and often dangerous nature of the journey to Basrah. The artist utilises the medium effectively, creating a series of jagged, sharp, abstra...ART90702
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Typescript copies of letters from Florence Narrelle Jessie Hobbes to family, 20 June 1915-7 December 1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: Australian War Memorial Hobbes, Florence Narrelle Jessie
Typescript copies letters relating to the service, during the First World War, of Sister Florence Narrelle Jessie Hobbes, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. In these letters ...RCDIG0001356