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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...

• A Morning Mist

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-07-09

  image: a view over a desert scene in the morning mist. The sun shines through, weakened by the mist. An Australian soldier strides across the scene from left to right. A herd of camels are visible through the fog in the distance, with two bell tents to...

• 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...

• A Pumping Station

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-07-21

  image: a British Army military policemen, wearing khaki shorts and pith helmet, stands beside a checkpoint hut at the entrance to a water pumping station. Behind him is a building, with a bell tent just visible in the left background. The landscape to...

• A Veterinary Hospital

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-06-08

  image: a man, who appears to be wearing a British vet's gown, sits on a wooden crate on a balcony, looking out over six long and open-sided huts in a semi-arid landscape. The buildings are all part of a British veterinary hospital. Before the huts a few...

• The Garden of the Monastery

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-12-03

  image: a group of four people sit on a raised platform near the arched entrance doorway of a large building

• 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...