 Motor transport units were also formed . Not required at Gallipoli , they were sent on to the Western Front , becoming the first units of the AIF to serve there . The motor transport rejoined I ANZAC Corps when it reached the Western Front in 1916 . Australia also formed six railway operating companies , which served on the Western Front . Specialist ordnance units included ammunition and mobile workshops units formed late in the war , while service units included supply columns , ammunition sub @-@ parks , field bakeries and butcheries , and depot units . Hospitals and other specialist medical and dental units were also formed in Australia and overseas , as were a number of convalescent depots . One small armoured unit was raised , the 1st Armoured Car Section . Formed in Australia , it fought in the Western Desert , and then , re @-@ equipped with T Model Fords , served in Palestine as the 1st Light Car Patrol . Camel companies were raised in Egypt to patrol the Western Desert . They formed part of the Imperial Camel Corps and fought in the Sinai and Palestine . In 1918 they were converted to light horse as the 14th and 15th Light Horse Regiments . 
