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Description: | McBey 12 October 1917.
image: eight local labourers, grouped in two lines of four men, use large metal crow bars to attempt to straighten lengths of newly laid railway track. The men are supervised by a British Army officer wearing pith helmet, shorts and white shirt and standing behind them with his hands on his hips. The railway has been constructed on a man-made raised earth bank, which curves off into the distance to the left. There appear to be other groups of workers further up the line. The landscape is otherwise arid and featureless.
Wellington House commission, transferred to Dept and Ministry of Information and then to the Imperial War
Museum
Master | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Egypt Egypt and Palestine 1915-1918 Ottoman Empire British Army 1914-1918 railways Military Personnel British Army Landscape workers Palestine and Arabia 1914-1918 First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | McBey, James | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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