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• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• An Inspection of the Scottish Rifle Brigade : on the 30th October, 1917, men who were to participate in the attack on Gaza that night were inspected by the Divisional General

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-10-30

  image: a mass of Scottish infantrymen are assembled in two parallel lines for inspection on a beach. Non-commissioned officers and subalterns stand in front of the two lines, while a few more senior officers on horseback stand at attention to the left....

• 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...

• Ramleh : the Plain of Sharon. The bombed German aerodrome is in the foreground, and on the right the groves of trees surrounding Lydda.

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-11-30

  image: a view across a flat landscape towards the town of Ramleh, on the horizon to the left. In the foreground are the remains of a bomb damaged aerodrome, of which only a few pieces of metal and debris remain. Troops and a horse drawn cart make their...

• The Mark of the Navy : the bridge over the Wadi Hesy Deir Seneid. The hole was made by a 12-inch shell fired at a range of over 9 miles.

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-11-13

  image: a view of an arched bridge crossing a wadi in a desert landscape. There is a large shell hole on the road of the bridge, with military vehicles driving across the dry riverbed itself rather than going over the bridge, and a few men walking over...

• The Bombardment of Gaza; Moonlight. From an Observation Post near the Sea

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

  image: a British Army officer leans on a low wall looking out over the flat and largely featureless landscape towards distant flashes of artillery fire on the horizon.

• The Gate of Palestine. Gaza from Raspberry Hill : a panoramic view of the battlefield of Gaza. The great road to Egypt follows the darker valley stretching to the left of Gaza. The Wadi Ghuzze lies across the middle distance, and part of it is seen at the end of the ravine.

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-11-01

  image: a panoramic view across the landscape leading up to Gaza in Palestine. A ravine runs up the middle of the composition, with arid land either side of it in the foreground. Further back the landscape is slightly greener, and there is evidence of...

• Umbrella Hill : the most advanced of the redoubts guarding Gaza

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-10-30

  image: British infantrymen advance at night across No Man's Land towards Turkish positions on Umbrella Hill, which rises up gently in the right background. The British soldiers, carrying rifles, move out of their advanced trenches in the left of the...