
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Guy Powles of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles Regiment (left) and Brigadier-General Charles Cox, commanding officer of the Australian 1st Light Horse Brigade survey a series of incomplete rock-cut water reservoirs at Magdhaba, December 1916. The reservoirs had been excavated by Ottoman troops under the direction of German engineers.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: PA1-q-605-02A-2
Photographer: Unidentified
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'Water reservoirs at Magdhaba', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/water-reservoirs-magdhaba, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 15-Jul-2013
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