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• 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.

• 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 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...

• Nebi Samwil. A British Battery In Action : the ancient Mizpah, stormed by the 234th Brigade. A field battery is engaging the Turkish batteries, which are shelling Mizpah.

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-12-18

  image: in the foreground a team of Royal Artillery gunners load and fire a field gun, which sits within a position covered with camouflaged netting. Another gun and gun team is visible to the right. In the distance, a cloud of earth near the peak of a...

• Katia Big Tree

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

  image: a group of men and camels have clustered near to a large tree in an arid desert landscape. Behind them is a ruined wall, with further trees in the background.

• Shells Bursting at Dawn on the Trenches round Ali-el-Muntar, on the Outskirts of Gaza

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

  image: a British Artillery officer looks through a telescope mounted on a tripod towards the clouds of smoke on the horizon showing where shells have fallen. He sits on an earthen ledge before an area of tall grass, beyond which the landscape is largely...

• Romani : the highest of the hills of drift sand facing Katina Plain

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

  image: a view across the desert landscape near Romani with high peaks of large sand drifts in the background. There appear to be a few trenches and dugouts in the foreground.

• Romani. Mount Meredith : the southern side of the ridge. Sand bagged graves of the Australian Light Horse are on the near slope, and on the further end the Turks lie buried.

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

  image: a view of the arid landscape near Romani, with the steep-sided peak of Mount Meredith in the middle ground. A few graves are marked in the foreground, with one marked with a cross to the left.