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• A Mountain Pass, Mesopotamia

  (art) Made by: Cain, Charles William 1918

  image: a view of a mountain pass in Mesopotamia. A picturesque and tree lined valley floor fills the foreground with mountains looming on either side of the valley in the background. A single figure sits amongst the trees in the immediate foreground.

• Army Camp, Mesopotamia, 1919

  (art) Made by: Carline, Sydney W 1919

  image: an army camp with tents, seen from a road. There is a small railway bridge crossing a dry river bed to the left of the composition and high mountains in the distance.

• The Good Samaritan Inn, Talaat-ed-Dumm : halfway between Jericho and Jerusalem. The furthest hill with the trees on top is Mount Scopus

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1918-05-08

  image: a troop of Indian Lancers on horseback advance towards the viewer along a dusty road, passing the derelict inn. The road runs through a valley and there are further hills in the background.

• Cacolets: Wounded being Conveyed over the Hill of Judaea to the Casualty Clearing Station in Covered-In Stretchers (cacolets) on the Backs of Camels

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-12-05

  image: A camel train moving along an extremely narrow ledge overlooking a deep valley shrouded in rain. The camels are loaded with covered stretchers (cacolets) that carry the wounded.

• THE MESOPOTAMIA CAMPAIGN 1914 - 1918

  part of "FARRANT J H (MR)" (photographs) 1917

  Rugby match played between officers representing the camps on the right and left banks of the River Tigris, 17 February 1917.

• THE MESOPOTAMIA CAMPAIGN 1914 - 1918

  part of "BLAKE J S (MR)" (photographs) 1917

  A British outpost on the lines of communication between Basra and Nasiriya, ca.1917. This is typical of the small garrisons established to guard the transport and supply network from Arab raiding and Turkish attack.

• THE BRITISH ARMY GENERALS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR

  part of "IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVE COLLECTION" (photographs) 1917

  Major General Sir George Gorringe CB CMG DSO, the CO of the 3rd Indian Army Corps in the Mesopotamian Campaign and of the 47th Division on the Western Front.

• THE SIEGE OF KUT-EL-AMARA, DECEMBER 1915 - APRIL 1916

  part of "FIRST WORLD WAR AGENCY COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Major General Charles Townshend in his quarters at Kut-el-Amara during the siege.

• THE MESOPOTAMIA CAMPAIGN 1914 - 1918

  part of "LYNDEN-BELL L A (COLONEL)" (photographs) 1916

  British river steamers, known as 'P Boats' on the River Tigris below Amara. Each boat has a barge lashed to each side to increase its carrying capacity for troops or equipment. This was standard practice in Mesopotamia during 1915 and 1916, when the...

• THE MESOPOTAMIA CAMPAIGN 1914 - 1918

  part of "UPTON A J"

  One of the fresh water tanks set up beside the River Euphrates at Ramadi to provide a supply of clean drinking water for men of 15th (Indian) Division.