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Water reservoirs at Magdhaba

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Water reservoirs at Magdhaba

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
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Water reservoirs at Magdhaba, URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/water-reservoirs-magdhaba, (Manatū Taonga — Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated