'Discharging a Camel up Persian Gulf'

A photograph taken from the deck of the tranport ship of a camel in a canvas sling being winched over the side onto a smaller steamer alongside at the Persian Gulf in support of the army in Iraq.

The photograph is captioned in white ink 'Discharging a Camel up Persian Gulf'

Robert Wiles Simms joined the passenger/cargo ship Bandra (1913) at Glasgow on 4 March 1914 and departed for Bombay [Mumbai] on 12 March 1914. The ship was used during the war as a troop and horse transport ship.

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ID:	ALB0924.111
Type:	Photographic print
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Robert Wiles Simms
Date made:	1914-1915
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 73 mm x 98 mm
Parts:	British India S.N.Co. - Bandra (1914) (Photograph album) 'Horses for the front' (Photographic print) (ALB0924.44) 'The first casualty dumping a dead horse from a Transport'. (Photographic print) (ALB0924.62) 'Taking horses on board a Transport' (Photographic print) (ALB0924.84) 'Discharging a Camel up Persian Gulf' (Photographic print) (ALB0924.111) 'Elephants on deck S.S. Ederanna' (Photographic print) (ALB0924.161) 'Mongoose & snake fighting' (Photographic print) (ALB0924.181)

'Discharging a Camel up Persian Gulf'

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