• Title
  Views of Mesopotamia, ca. 1917-1919 / J.H. Brier
• Creator
  J. H. Brier
• Call number
  PXA 385
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  ca. 1917-1919
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  69800
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (155 photoprints) - gelatin silver - 25.5 x 21.5 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  1. A.W.S. No. 7 Station Chaldry - Rest Camp Basra - A.W.S. No. 12 Station Weli-Abbas - Horse lines, Chaldary - HQ 7th Cav Bde, Chaldary
  2. Three views of ...? Mosque, Baghdad - Two views of Esra's Tomb
  3. Baghdad. On the way to the races - Saddling paddock - Bandstand - Getting ready to start - Hambis Steeplechase won by `Australia Jane'
  4. Indian Transport Gharrys, Baghdad - S. Battlion R.H.A. with General Townsend, escaped from hut before being surrounded by Turks - Water wagon - Caterpillar tractor for hauling guns
  5. Four sides of an Arab irrigation plant near Baghdad
  6. Ruins of Babylon
  7. Christian Tomb in Baghdad looted by Arabs - Babylon Palace [ruins] - Garden of Eden - Ruins of Babylon - A rest on the top of the Babylonian Lion
  8-9. Views of Baghdad
  10. Views of Baghdad - Turkish Cavalry Barracks
  11-13. Views and street scenes of Baghdad
  14. Street scenes of Baghdad - Hospital ship - H.M.S. Moth, Tigris River Monitor
  15. Baghdad
  16. German aviator's headstone - Armenian Tombstone - Grave of Field Marshall Von Der Goltz, Baghdad ... - Mosque, Weli-Abbas - Headstones in British Cemetery, Baghdad
  17. Baghdad
  18. Amara, Tigris River - Basra
  19. Where we embarked for Australia (Calcutta, Mar 22, 1919) - Victoria Docks, Bombay, India, disembarked here from Mesopotamia - G.H.Q. Motor boat (60 miles per hour) - Persian oil wells, Shatt-el-arab - ...? Coaling Station, Persian Gulf
  20. No. 12 Station A.W.S. `Weualab' - Xmas morning No. 12 Stn. 1918 - No. 7 Stn. A.W.S. at lunch - The morning after Armistice Night - Off W.A. looking for Australia
  21. Winter costume 14 Samarra - Summer 126 (off duty), Welwalab - Washing day, Sadegah - Waiting for troop train, Bombay - Embarking S.S. Janus
  22. Spare pack, No. 12 Wireless Pack Stn. - No.4, A.W.S. on the move - Tony the cook, No. 7 Stn. A.W.S. - In the ... scrub `Shahraban' - Going for mail `Samarra'
  23. Xmas dinner 1918 - The menu Xmas 1918 - Our beds on the roof, Baghdad - Indian Farrier attached to A.W.S. - Horse Line Billet, Baghdad (was Turkish Police Station)
  24. S.S. Janus, April 1919 - Pillow fight - Mess orderlies galley - Off Jervis Bay, N.S.W. (everyone happy) - Porpoise swimming in front of `Janus' - Waiting to embark on H.M.S. Northbrook at Basra
  25. Hawk stealing food from plate, Welali rest camp, India - Smallest man in British Army - British cemetery, Baghdad - Suspension bridge built by Indian's attached to Royal Engineers (Harnbis) - Mascoto
  26. Samarra - Sheiks tomb - The Golden Dome Mosque - Pontoon bridge - Armenian residence destroyed by Turks - ziggurat & ruins - From the top of ziggurat (200 ft. high)
  27. Weli-Abbas - Winnowing - Bringing in the harvest - Chaff cutting - Arabs - An Arab village
  28. A son of the desert [camel] - Camels grazing - Kara Tappeh - Marsh Arabs village - Moving day - Returning from bazaar - Weli-Abbas
  29. Wood gatherers - Hedgehog (much sort after by Arabs for food) - Arab women carrying water, Baghdad - Weli-Abbas, Arab Labour Corps digging a canal - Irrigation canal
  30. Scrambling for Bachsheech, Welali, India - Chinese boy scouts, Singapore - Indian contortionists, Rest Camp, Welali, India - Indians at dinner, river boat - Indian beggars
  31. Arab Sheiks - Turkish ammunition waggon - Mounted Arabs, Chaldari - Arab bride & groom, Chaldari
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  A bibliography of servicemen's and women's diaries of World War I is held in the Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room at PXn 878
  State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I pictorial material
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1023975
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  All are titled
• Name
  Australia. Army. Australian Imperial Force (1914-1921)
  World War (1914-1918)
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Adult Females
  children
  Photograph albums.
  
• Topic
  armies
  army camps
  bridges
  gravestones
  historic sites
  horse racing
  hospital ships
  irrigation
  menus
  ruins
  streetscapes
  troopships
  war damage
  wars
  
• Place
  Iraq
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1508078

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