Imperial Camel Corps - Aftermath

Aftermath

In over two years of service including much combat, two hundred and forty six members of the corps died, one hundred and six of them British, eighty-four Australians, forty-one New Zealanders, and nine from India.

A memorial to the Imperial Camel Corps was unveiled on the 22 July 1921, on the Thames Embankment in London. On one side it is inscribed with the names of all the members of the corps who died during the war, while on the front is the sentiment;

To the Glorious and Immortal Memory of the Officers, N.C.O's and Men of the Imperial Camel Corps – British, Australian, New Zealand, Indian – who fell in action or died of wounds and disease in Egypt, Sinai, and Palestine, 1916, 1917, 1918.

It also lists all the battles and engagements fought by the corps;

• 1916: Romani, Baharia, Mazar, Dakhla, Maghara, El. Arish, Maghdaba
• 1917: Rafa, Hassana, Gaza 1, Gaza 2, Sana Redoubt, Beersheba, Bir Khu Weilfe, Hill 265
• 1918: Amman, Jordan Valley, Mudawar (Hedjaz)