A German Albatros D.III aircraft (serial D636/17) flown by Oberleutnant Gustav Adolf Dittmar of Fliegerabteilung 300. The aircraft had been shot down, practically intact, into AIF Light Horse lines near Beersheba, Palestine, by a Bristol fighter aircraft flown by Lieutenant R. Steele, a Canadian pilot with No. 111 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. No. 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, members recovered the machine and moved it to their airfield where repairs, including a bullet holed radiator, were carried out returning it to flying condition. The aircraft is pictured at the aerodrome at Sheikh Nuran.
Australian armed forces
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