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• location sign, 'Piccadilly Circus

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  British First World War period trench sign. 'Piccadilly Circus' formed part of the defensive British trench system facing Gaza. The name on the sign, always a popular one with British troops, hints at a 'busy' location and also the possibility of 'London...

• The Wadi Ghuzze : looking along the Wadi towards Beersheba

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-09-12

  image: a view across the dry riverbed of the Wadi Ghuzze, with a sheer-faced bank running across the right of the composition and steeper hills further back. Two British soldiers on horseback stand to the right, with a column of troops, possibly also on...

• 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.

• 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.

• Wireless Operators : on duty in an observation post, hewn out of the sandstone

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

  image: two British wireless operators stand in a cave-like observation post, wearing headsets over their ears. The foremost man writes with pencil and paper, the second man's face obscured behind him. The upper wall of the post is constructed with...

• The Cook

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-09-10

  image: a British Army cook tends to food within a frying pan beside an improvised stove housed in the side of a trench. Smoke emerges from the small chimney of the stove. Three other British soldiers stand further along the trench system.

• 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.

• Ramleh : the Plain of Sharon. The bombed German aerodrome is in the foreground, and on the right the groves of trees surrounding Lydda.

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-11-30

  image: a view across a flat landscape towards the town of Ramleh, on the horizon to the left. In the foreground are the remains of a bomb damaged aerodrome, of which only a few pieces of metal and debris remain. Troops and a horse drawn cart make their...

• The Mark of the Navy : the bridge over the Wadi Hesy Deir Seneid. The hole was made by a 12-inch shell fired at a range of over 9 miles.

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-11-13

  image: a view of an arched bridge crossing a wadi in a desert landscape. There is a large shell hole on the road of the bridge, with military vehicles driving across the dry riverbed itself rather than going over the bridge, and a few men walking over...

• The Bombardment of Gaza; Moonlight. From an Observation Post near the Sea

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-10-29

  image: a British Army officer leans on a low wall looking out over the flat and largely featureless landscape towards distant flashes of artillery fire on the horizon.