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Photograph C04964 First World War, 1914-1918Camels of the Egyptian Camel Transport Corps attached to the West Frontier Force, going to water on the beach at Matruh, in Western Egypt.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
An Egyptian officer of the Sudanese Coastguards mounted on his camel at Matruh, in Western Egypt.
Camels of the Egyptian Camel Transport Corps attached to the West Frontier Force, going to water on the beach at Matruh, in Western Egypt.

Egypt, 1915. An ambulance vehicle belonging to 4th Field Ambulance, 1st AIF, together with an Egyptian and his camel, on which a member of the unit is mounted.

A lion, modelled in the wet sand on the beach at Matruh, by members of the Egyptian Camel Transport Corps.

A mounted and dismounted Soudanese (Sudanese) member of the Egyptian police.

Gifts from the Australian War Chest Club, being conveyed by camel transport from Matruh, on the coast of Western Egypt to the troops operating against the Senussi Tribesmen.

Wounded Sikhs, on camel caccolets, returning to Matruh, in Egypt, from operations west of Birshola.
