• Title
  Photos taken by Sapper Thos. J. Nash with Wireless Squadron in Mesopotamia 1917-1919
• Creator
  T. J. Nash
• Call number
  PXA 386
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  ca. 1917-1919
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  69816
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (96 photoprints) - gelatin silver - 19 x 30.5 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  1. Demobilisation of Wireless Squadron in Baghdad, Dec 1918 - General headquarters - Natives bathing in Tigris River - Hospital boat at 65th British General Hospital
  2-3. Six panoramic scenes of Baghdad - German cemetery, Baghdad, pre-war
  4-5. Views of interior of Khadamain - the great worship place of the East
  6. V.C. Machine Gunner on the `Mantis' - Gun boat Mantis which wrought great destruction among the Turks on the Tigris - C.P.O. on the Mantis - Anti air craft gun on the Mantis
  7. Salmon caught in the Tigris - Arab coolie carrying 2 bales compressed wool - Arab wood carter - Coolie with 42 petrol tins
  8. Arab Dhobi dancing for an `Aussie' - Two escaped prisoners - Xerxis coolie the most powerful men in "Meso" - Group of Arab labourers
  9. Native Gharri - Captured Turkish wireless set `telescopic mast' - Captured camel train - Ghurka guard on G.H.Q.
  10. `Kurd' - Interior blacksmith's shop - Interior of brass workers
  11. Armenian coffee shop - View barber's shop - Captured camels - Road leading to South Gate, Baghdad
  12. Street scenes in Baghdad (burning ?) - Officers convalescent home on the Tigris - Indian band
  13. Main Street, Baghdad - Turkish gun at the Citadel, brass - Unloading a raft of firewood on the Tigris - River Wall where natives assemble
  14. Dome's & Minarettes - Ghurka guard and supply stores - Grave of von der Golz, German General shot in the Battle of Sinnyial - Sheep & irrigation canal
  15. Indian General Hospital - Pontoon Bridge over Tigris - Entrance at North Gate - Arab Coolie's drawing wagon
  16. Minarette - Hospital boat `Camala' - British General Hospital, Basra - Native `Mahile'
  17. Snap of Hanley Paige [Page] when leaving Baghdad for Australia - New Street, Baghdad - River Street, Baghdad - Persian barber
  18-19. Ruins of Babylon - the buried city near Baghdad - being excavated
  20. Caterpillar tractor - Watering time, `Mosul' - Flight Lieut. Williams buried at Baghdad, killed 1/1/19 [memorial] - Dvr. F. Evans, Australian Cavalry Sig. Sqdn. [memorial]
  21. Pontoon Bridge at Baghdad North - Ezra's Tomb - Kul-El-Amara, where General Townsend was captured
  22. Garden of Eden at the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates - Tigris in flood - Truck of burning `Bousa'
  23. Natives - Bibby & Chicko - South Gate, Mosul - Three boats sunk by the Turks in the Tigris to stay the passage of the British
  24. Camp life - S.S. Northbrooke A.W.S. embarking at Basra - India `Habildah' - Engineers badge carved in solid marble at Mosul
• 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 : 1023976
• 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
  Arabic people
  armies
  battleships
  bridges
  burial grounds
  Ghurkas
  gravestones
  historic sites
  hospital ships
  panoramic views
  ruins
  streetscapes
  tractors
  troopships
  war damage
  wars
  
• Place
  Iraq
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1512343

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