Several military units bore the name of Camel Corps:
- The U.S. Camel Corps, a mid-nineteenth century experimental unit that used camels for transport
- The Imperial Camel Corps, an Allied unit that fought in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign during World War I
- The Bikaner Camel Corps of the Indian Army.
- The Somaliland Camel Corps during the period of British colonial rule.
In addition there were camel cavalry units in the Spanish, French, Italian and British colonial possessions in North Africa and the Middle East. These were primarily for desert patrol and policing work. See méhariste and Tropas Nomadas.
Famous quotes containing the words camel and/or corps:
“Alas, alas for Hamelin!
There came into many a burgher’s pate
A text which says that Heaven’s Gate
Opes to the rich at as easy rate
As the needle’s eye takes a camel in!”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)
“The Washington press corps thinks that Julie Nixon Eisenhower is the only member of the Nixon Administration who has any credibility—and, as one journalist put it, this is not to say that anyone believes what she is saying but simply that people believe she believes what she is saying ... it is almost as if she is the only woman in America over the age of twenty who still thinks her father is exactly what she thought he was when she was six.”
—Nora Ephron (b. 1941)