The Egyptian Camel Transport Corps were a group of Egyptian camel drivers who supported the British Army in Egypt during the First World War's Sinai and Palestine Campaign. The work done by the 170,000 men of the Corps helped British war operations in the Sinai desert and in Palestine and Syria by transporting supplies to the troops in extreme geographic and weather conditions.
Units of the Egyptian Camel Transport Corps crossing the Jordan River by the pontoon bridge at Ghoraniyeh in March 1918
Egyptian Camel Corps personnel. Drivers wearing skyblue Jellabiyas
Stores being unloaded and carried to a dump being constructed behind the tent at El Arish. A caravan of loaded camels is in the foreground
Brigade Headquarters Office Ready for the Road
Battle of Beersheba (1917)
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The Battle of Beersheba was fought on 31 October 1917, when the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) attacked and captured the Ottoman Empire's Yildirim Army Group garrison at Beersheba, beginning the Southern Palestine Offensive of the Sinai and Palestine campaign of World War I.
Beersheba in 1917
British infantry marching on the wire road across the desert between Bir el Mazar and Bardawil in February 1917
Beersheba Serai
Ottoman infantry column about 1917 (many soldiers in keffiyehs)