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Description: | Copy negatives created from material lent to the museum. Includes photographs relating to the service of the Revenend Benjamin West Taylor as a chaplain with 60th (London) Division in Egypt and Palestine during the First World War. A number of the photographs relate to West Taylor's time at Romani Camp in the Sinai Desert, including views of the exterior and interior of the Garrison Church that he took a leading role having built. There are also group photographs of the staff of the church and confirmation groups including men from the British West Indies Regiment. One of the latter images includes the Bishop of Jerusalem who confirmed one group of soldiers. Other photographs show the British military cemetery at Romani; pack camels being loaded with water tanks; a Field Ambulance camp at El Arish; Allenby's official entry into Jerusalem on 11 December 1917; Turkish prisoners of war; British wounded being carried in cacolets on camels; a British hospital train; captured German motor transport and a bridge over the River Jordan blown up by retreating Turkish forces. There is also a good portrait of Reverend W Wilson Cash, DSO, OBE, Senior Chaplain of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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