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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...

• On the Troop Train: The First Day, 20th May 1917

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-05-20

  image: a view from the window of a train moving rapidly through the French countryside, transporting British troops. On the left is a view down the length of the train, with three men leaning out of the windows to look at the scenery. To the right is...

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.