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Description: | James McBey 5 December 1917.*
image: A camel train moving along an extremely narrow ledge overlooking a deep valley shrouded in rain. The camels are
loaded with covered stretchers (cacolets) that carry the wounded.
After struggling to keep up with Allenby’s advance through the Gaza-Beersheba line in October 1917, McBey had to endure
the turbulent winter conditions of the Judaean Hills in Palestine en route to Jerusalem in December. The delicate beauty of ‘Cacolets’
chronicles the means whereby wounded or sick could be evacuated from the constantly changing ‘front’. It also makes clear the harsh
physical conditions in which the campaign was fought. The anonymous Arab figure leading the first camel along the narrow, winding, rock-
strewn track wraps his robes closely around himself to fend off the biting wind in an almost timeless scene of stoic
endurance.
Wellington House commission, transferred to Dept and Ministry of Information and then to the Imperial War
Museum
Original Image | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Mesopotamia 1914-1918 Animals Landscape 01/3(569) medical / convalescence Palestine and Arabia 1914-1918 military suffering Egypt Ottoman Empire British Army Transport wounded / disabled 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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