British army. Palestine. WW1

I have come across parts of this collection previously. It appears to show the same platoon (no.11), probably the machine gun corps,  in action in Palestine.

 

British soldiers posing with a cow. Palestine. First World War.

Another part of the set previously posted. Two sergeants and a corporal posing with a cow. The man in the centre has injured, bandaged hands.

German House

An unidentified house with the occupants posing in the windows. I think this may be the same family depicted a few years previously in this photo. Two of the men are appear to be wearing German WW1 era army uniform.

Palestine. First World War.

A pair of photos I found in a flea market a few days ago. They appear to have been taken during the British offensive against the Turks in 1917. In the first photo grinning British soldiers are posing with a wrecked German-built AEG C.IV fighter plane. The bottom photo of troops resting in trench has a pencilled note on the back which I still haven't fully deciphered (perhaps you can help) which includes the words "second day of the Battle of Gaza".

 

British soldiers in Baku, Azerbaijan. 16th June 1919.

An intriguing old photo I found in a flea market today. It was taken after the end of WW1 in the short-lived Azerbaijan Democratic Republic when Baku was occupied by Commonwealth troops under the command of British General W.Thompson. These must be British soldiers posing with locals.

Written on the reverse "Taken at Baku. June 16 - 1919. Me and Old Tank" I assume 'Old Tank' is the cat.

The back of the photo then seems to have been reused as a piece of notepaper to convey this order: "Officer Inspection at 8.30. All Gun Gear to be laid out by 8.30 for inspection and handing over to Mr Thomas, Section Officer"

They appear to have machine gun corps cap badges, which would maybe explain the reference to 'gun gear'.

No. 10 Camels

A bit of a mystery which I found crumpled up in a flea market bin. An incomplete pencilled note on the back reads "no. 10 camels carrying to Jamboal.....". It has been suggested that this last word might be a variant spelling of 'Yambo al Bahr' or 'Yanbu al Bahr', which is on the Red Sea in present-day Saudi Arabia, and that this is part of the 10th company of the Imperial Camel Corps during the first world war campaign against the Ottoman Empire.

I count 12 camels.

Guard room. British soldiers in the middle east. WW1.

Soldiers wearing 1914 pattern equipment and pith helmets, probably taken during or shortly after the campaign against Turkey. We know who sent this one home, it's the chap standing on the right. He wrote on the back....



"This is a photo taken......
our guard-room.....
wire round it to keep the
flies and mosquitoes out
that is me standing
up on sentry with the
rifle in my hand, but
he missed my head when
he took it"

Lagonda works. 1915.

A note on the reverse says "Lagonda 1915". Lagonda cars were manufactured at Egham Hythe in Berkshire. The company was founded by an American, Wilbur Gunn, who named it after a river near his home town in Ohio. I was disappointed that I couldn't see anything in this photo to connect it with cars. The only objects visible are a line of what I took to be paint tins in a row behind the men. However, a little research reveals that Lagonda were not manufacturing cars in 1915, they had converted to war production of.....artillery shells. Does that explain those cylindrical objects?