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• Mahemdia : from the Roman ruins. The hospital on the beach is seen three miles distant

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-10-13

  image: a view of a beach near Mahemdia, with a steep-sided bank and a partially ruined building along the left. Two figures are just visible in the centre of the composition, a hospital can be seen on the far horizon and water lies to the right.

• Straightening the Line : gangs of native labourers working on the railway near Romani

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-10-12

  image: eight local labourers, grouped in two lines of four men, use large metal crow bars to attempt to straighten lengths of newly laid railway track. The men are supervised by a British Army officer wearing pith helmet, shorts and white shirt and...

• The Railway, Romani

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-10-16

  image: a white desert landscape, with a railway line running from the centre to the left of the composition. To the right of centre there is a ramshackle hut with a straw roof, three British soldiers standing on the hut's verandah. A steam train runs...

• Dug-outs

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-08-09

  image: a British soldier, possibly an officer, sits within the shadowed shelter of a dug-out in the arid desert. He sits in the left dug-out in a series, all constructed from sandbags and dug into a sandy earthen bank.

• A Sentry : Samuel William Salmond, carman, of Peckham, on duty

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-09-18

  image: a half length portrait of a British soldier on sentry duty. He is wearing his greatcoat with the collar up against the chill of the desert in the early morning, with his rifle shouldered and a soft peaked cap on his head.

• A Freight of Pain : on the way to the hospital at Port Said

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-07-23

  image: several wounded soldiers and attending personnel lie and sit on the deck of a boat on the way to hospital at Port Said. To the right four men lie on stretchers, all of them with bandaged heads. In the centre a man in khaki shorts lies on his side...

• Kantara. Morning

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-07-23

  image: a view of a column of British troops marching across a bridge at Kantara. The water of the Suez Canal fills the foreground, with the bridge to the left. A man riding on a camel follows behind the column, which is moving away from the viewer...

• The Hills of Romani : from here, near Katia, the Turkish attack was launched over the dunes on Romani which lies in line with the bush in the foreground. The shallow trenches were dug by the Worcester Yeomanry.

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-10-16

  image: a view across a wide desert landscape with a British soldier standing beside two grazing camels in the left foreground, with a shallow trench on the right. There are some hills on the distant horizon.

• BRITISH TRUCK BURNING, WESTERN DESERT [Allocated Title]

  (film) Made by: Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) 1942-03-18

  Three shots of a British truck, on fire after an air raid.

• WINSTON CHURCHILL VISITS ARMOURED UNITS AT TEL-EL-KEBIR, EGYPT, AUGUST 1942

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  Cheering troops line the road to welcome the Prime Minister Winston Churchill during his tour of armoured units at Tel-El-Kebir, Egypt, on 9 August 1942.