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• Baking Native Bread

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-06-21

  image: a view of a large room in which Egyptian cooks are in the process of kneading and baking bread. They work at long benches containing large sink-like recesses, within which the dough is contained.

• Frozen Meat : meat from Australia is being checked by the ASC and loaded into the ice tanks, which will be conveyed by lighter and rail to the front

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-06-29

  image: a night scene with a man of the British Army Service Corps sitting and writing at a desk, upon which sits a lamp. Two men stand either side of him, the one further back appearing to closely inspect a packet of meat. Another man stands to the right...

• An Oven : the bread for the front is baked at the base

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-06-21

  image: three men of the British Army Service Corps stand before a huge oven, with a large tray full of loaves of bread to the right.

• The Tibbin Barge : at sunset natives are unloading fodder brought from Upper Egypt in barges

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-06-19

  image: Egyptian workers unload large bales of hay from a long barge onto the harbour side. In the foreground one man carries a bundle on his shoulders, walking at the end of a narrow plank from the boat to the harbour. Behind him several men help to...

• 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 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...