AFFULA - MEN OF THE RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION & MAINTENANCE GROUP OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS AT ...

Place Middle East: British Mandate of Palestine, Palestine, El Afule
Accession Number 004054
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Place made British Mandate of Palestine: Palestine, Affula
Date made 12 November 1940
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

AFFULA - MEN OF THE RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION & MAINTENANCE GROUP OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS AT WORK ON THE LINE. MANY OF THE MEN WERE MEMBERS OF THE OLD A.I.F. AND WERE DOING SIMILAR WORK IN THE LAST WAR, NOW THEY ARE PATCHING UP THE WORK OF THEIR OLD OPPONENTS, THE TURKS, WHO BUILT THIS LINE. (NEGATIVE BY F. HURLEY).