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=== Australia ===
{{Main|Royal Australian Engineers}}
[[File:Benat Yakub bridge.jpg|thumb|Jisr Benat Yakub repaired (September 1918)]]

During the [[Sinai and Palestine Campaign]] of World War I, Australian sappers repaired a bridge at the [[Battle of Jacob's Ford|historic crossing]] of the [[Jordan River]] at Jisr Benat Yakub (also known as [[Jacob's Ford]]). Here the retreating Ottoman and German rearguard had blown up the bridge's central arch, which was repaired in five hours by sappers attached to the [[Australian Mounted Division]]. While the light horse brigades forded the river, continuing the [[Desert Mounted Corps]]' advance to [[Damascus]], the sappers worked through the night of 27/28 September 1918, to repair the bridge to enable the division's wheeled vehicles and guns to follow on 28 September.<ref>Preston pp. 261–2</ref><ref>Carver 2003 p. 242</ref><ref>Falls 1930 Vol. 2 p. 568</ref>