Railways - Palestine

Date: 1917

From: McFarlane, Francis Ledingham, 1888-1948 :[Sketches from war service in India and the Middle East, 1919-1918] / F L McFarlane

Reference: E-289-q-003/004

Description: Sketch shows the terrain of part of Palestine with a railway viaduct crossing low land. There are hills in the right distance. Some features are labelled - from left: Crops on low hill (1 1/2 m), low-lying clear country, dark green patch, low hill, Rly viaduct (evidently stone) and rly line and embankments (6 miles), low ridge, distant hills (just visible), closer range of nobby hills. There is a compass in lower centre. Other Titles - North Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on double page spread, 170 x 510 mm.

Date: [ca 1918-1919]

By: Lupton, Roger Deller, 1897-

Reference: PAColl-0401

Description: Photographs of Palestine, Egypt and the Middle East, probably taken by Roger Lupton who was on active service there. As there are captions relating to the AMR, it is assumed that he was with the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment. They are mostly of places of interest in the area such as the Monastery of St George at Wadi Qelt; the Crusaders' Tower in Richon; the Mosque of Omar, the Garden of Gethsemane and the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem; temple ruins at Luxor; the Agricultural College in Jaffa; the River Jordan; a Roman amphitheatre in Amman; the German Church in Bethlehem; the Church of Lazarus in Bethany; the inside of the Russian Church in Jaffa; and a man and a woman floating in the Dead Sea. However, there are others relating to the campaign: a pontoon bridge over the River Jordan; Kastal Railway Station on the Mecca line with a long goods train being loaded; the remains of the Turkish gun Jericho Jane (Turkish gun used in the Jordan Valley during the First World War so named as its range was long enough to hit Jericho from the opposite side of the vally, twelve miles away. The gun had an eighteen foot barrel); bombed houses in Jaffa; a cemetery; Algerian cavalry in Ismalia; railway lines at Tantah, Egypt; a stone Turkish bridge at Beersheba; the ruins of a Turkish patrol boat next to the Dead Sea; a railway engine destroyed by the retreating Turks; dead horses of the Auckland regiment in the Jordan Valley; a group of soldiers on board a troop ship; and three of men and horses, one showing the camp at Richon. Quantity: 49 b&w original photographic print(s) loose prints. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) post cards. 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1917-1918

From: Powles family : Papers

Reference: PA1-q-605

Description: Album is the second part of a two-album record of the British campaigns in north-eastern Egypt and Palestine, 1916-1918. It is a record of the Palestine campaign after the capture of El Arish. Thus its story really begins at Rafa on the Egyptian/Palestine boarder and ends with General Allenby's triumphal entry into the city of "Jerusalem the Blessed" (his words) on 11 December 1917. As a record it presents a detailed account of the actions, movements, encampments, places, troops, countryside, and locals as experienced by a New Zealand officer participant. The photographs are well documented and identified. In relation to place names, spellings from books and maps have been used. Album spellings have been added to the "non preferred" slot in the place records, so that they are linked to the official place name spellings and can thus be used in a search. Arrangement: Negatives for the prints in this album should be among those registered at F 178589 1/2 to F 178976 1/2, and F178993 1/2 to F 179124 1/2 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).