Formed in 1916.  At its height there were 4,150 men and 4,800 camels.  3 of the 4 battalions were disbanded in mid-1918. The 2nd Battalion was disbanded in May 1919.
Group, Armed Forces, Animals, Australia, Egypt, India, Israel/Palestine, New Zealand
Field-Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, K.G. Born near Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland. Became a national hero leading the British army in the Sudan. Continued his career in the Boer War, In...
Person, Armed Forces, Seriously Famous, Africa, Egypt, India, Ireland, Scotland
William Stuart Lock Maxwell was born in Brixton, one of the six children of William Henry Maxwell (1864-1938) and Agnes Sarah Maxwell née Lock (1864-1953). His birth was registered in 4th quarter o...
Army Commander. Born Bernard Law Montgomery, son of Sir H. H. Montgomery, in St Mark's Vicarage, Kennington Oval, or Kensington, Knightsbridge, depending on source. Spent the early years of his lif...
Person, Armed Forces, Seriously Famous, Australia, Egypt, France, Italy
Charles Bernard Mortlock was a rector, a canon, a connoisseur of art, architecture and antiques, and a journalist in archaeology. 1929 appointed Archaeological Correspondent for the Daily Telegrap...
Donald Albert Parsons was born in 1921, the younger son of William Parsons (b. circa 1887) and Lucy Jane Parsons, née Paul (1888-1972). His birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of 1921 in the St...
Archaeologist specialising in Egypt.  Born Charlton, near Greenwich. His maternal grandfather was Captain Matthew Flinders. Petrie was a self-taught surveyor with minimal university education. St...
Men and women of Middle East Air Force Command who lost their lives in the Suez Canal Zone, 1945 -1956, and especially for those who have no known grave.
Albert Thomas Read was born on 15 August 1910 in Finsbury, London, the tenth of the eleven children of William John Read (1867-1948) and Hannah Maud Read née Sweeny (1874-1949). His birth was regis...
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