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• A Dressing-Station

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-09-21

  image: two medical personnel tend to a wounded British soldier, who lies on a stretcher with his head bandaged and his left arm in a splint. One man kneels on the right, tending to the soldier's dressings. The other stands and leans over from the left,...

• An Artillery Observer : a young officer observing the effect of the shells of his battery. The results of fire are telephoned back to the guns, some miles behind.

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-09-17

  image: a young British artillery officer stands within an enclosed and covered observation post, observing British artillery fire through a device positioned on the parapet. He looks through a small loophole, the upper wall of the parapet partly made...

• The Hospital at Mahemdia : for a mile along the beach stretch the tents of a Stationary Hospital. Beyond the boat is the screen of an open-air cinema.

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

  image: in the foreground two British soldiers in pith helmets sit within a rowing boat on a beach at Mahemdia, before a large hospital. White tents stretch right across the horizon, with figures walking amongst them. Beyond the men can be seen a large...

• Building a Sea Wall : the Egyptian Labour Corps

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917

  image: a party of men of the Egyptian Labour Corps are busy constructing a sea wall on a beach, supervised by a British officer wearing pith helmet, shorts and white shirt. A ditch has been dug, with a wall made with sandbags on the seaward side.

• The Long Patrol: The Sergeant : Jim Liddy, silver miner from Broken Hill, New South Wales

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-07-14

  image: a head and shoulders portrait of Sergeant Jim Liddy, an Australian of the Imperial Camel Corps. He is shown in profile wearing a wide-brimmed hat.

• The Group Commander : the OC of a heavy artillery group

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-09-13

  image: a half length portrait of a British Royal Artillery officer wearing a desert issue shirt. He stares directly at the viewer with piercing blue eyes and a bushy moustache.

• Near the Coast

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-09-15

  image: a view of two artillery emplacements in an arid landscape near a coastline. Both emplacements are dug into the earth and concealed with camoflage netting. The outline of a few soldiers are visible, as are silhouettes of belll tents near the sea in...

• The Battery Major : absorbed in his registration in the battery post he receives a report from a corporal

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

  image: a Major commanding a Royal Artillery battery sits at a table where he has temporarily stopped plotting positions on an artillery chart whilst a corporal reports information to him. A desk lamp illuminates the chart, with a candle in a small recess...

• The Long Patrol: Drifting Sand

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-07-11

  image: a view of an Imperial Camel Corps patrol in the desert, seen from the perspective of the artist's position on the back of a camel. The camel's head and neck is in the immediate foreground. Further in front are several soldiers mounted on camels,...

• The Long Patrol: The Wadi

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-07-11

  image: an Imperial Camel Corps patrol have halted in a wadi, a dried out riverbed, in the desert. A group of soldiers sit and stand on the right, immediately behind several saddles that have been removed from the backs of the camels, who are lined up at...