A forgotten front

When most of us think of the First World War, images that come to mind are of mud and trenches, fractured landscapes and flattened European towns. Many of these images were taken by official war photographers approved by the War Office.

However there is another, less well-known war: one of heat, dust and movement taking place in an ancient and, to the soldiers, almost mythical landscape. This is the conflict in Egypt and Palestine – a theatre in which only some 600 official photographs were taken. Fortunately and more will follow.