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English: A train on a light rail pushing trucks carrying British soldiers along the Suez Canal, 1916 (or according to Iain Logie on the Baharia Military Railway).[1]

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  1. ↑ Iain Logie: Light railways of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force 1915-18 (Part 3: The railways of the Western Desert). In: The Narrow Gauge, Issue 240.
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Source National Army Museum of New Zealand, Reference No 1992.747
Author Photograph Album (probably) of 22/13 Sister Mabel Crook who left New Zealand with the New Zealand Army Nursing Service Corps (NZANSC) on 8 April 1915. Mabel Crook was working at Palmerston North Hospital prior to WWI. The album covers New Zealand Nurses on the Hospital Ship Marama, in Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine and Britain.
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A similar locomotive

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