Formed in 1916. At its height there were 4,150 men and 4,800 camels. 3 of the 4 battalions were disbanded in mid-1918. The 2nd Battalion was disbanded in May 1919.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Imperial Camel Corps
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Imperial Camel Corps
The sculptor was also a member of the corps. Unveiled by Chetwode. For anothe...
Other Subjects
Alice Drakoules
Campaigner for animal welfare. Alice Marie Drakoules (née Lambe) was born c.1850 near Brussels to English parents. 1876 married William Lewis, the managing director of the Union Assurance Company...
1 memorial
Sheridan’s Stables
Harrow Through Time by Don Walter dates this bucolic image to 1795.
1 memorial
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Diplomat, poet, hedonist and traveller. Born Petworth House, Sussex. Advocated anti-Imperialism, and supported Irish nationalism. Legendary womaniser, one being William Morris's wife, Jane. Married...
1 memorial
Jessie Craigen
Jessie Hannah Craigen was a working-class suffrage speaker. She was also a freelance (or 'paid agent') speaker in the campaigns for Irish Home Rule and the cooperative movement and against vivisect...
1 memorial
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Equiano - Riding House Street
W1, Riding House Street, 67-73
City of Westminster Olaudah Equiano (1745 - 1797), 'The African', lived and published here in 1789 his autobiography on suffering the ba...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Hannah Billig
Doctor. Born at 41 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields. Qualified as a doctor in 1925, she set up her first clinic in the east end of London in 1935. During WW2 she was the doctor in charge of air raid sh...
Person, Community / Clubs, Medicine, India, Israel/Palestine
1 memorial
G. T. Bishop
Employed at the Holloway tram garage. Served and was killed in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Henry Hall
Bandleader. Born in Peckham, he studied at Trinity College of Music. In 1932 he became leader of the BBC Dance Orchestra, and his weekly radio programme drew huge audiences. He always concluded his...
2 memorials
Enrique Manuel Aguirre, B.A.
Enrique Manuel Aguirre was born on 25 May 1903 in Anerley, Kent (now Greater London), the youngest of the three children of Enrique Blas Aguirre (1866-1926) and Henrietta Emma Aguirre née Rogers (1...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial