Private, Bedfordshire Regiment, Gaza 1917

The fighting against the Turkish forces in Palestine during the Great War is an area of interest I acquired rather early in life, since as a boy I personally knew veterans of the campaign, who were extremely talkative about their experiences.

Unlike the war on the Western Front, it eventually became a war of movement, involving large mounted forces. But before the breakout in 1918 there was a long period of stalemate in a trench system around Gaza: my figure is shown in that setting.