'B' Company sandbagging trucks, Haifa May 1936

Photograph, Palestine (1936-1939), 1936.

Officers of 1st Battalion The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) on a pump trolley pass a railway wagon full of men from 'B' Company. The Loyals were then engaged in rail protection duties against militant Arab groups opposed to the British Mandate and growing Jewish immigration.

From album of 178 photographs, with captions, compiled by Lt Col J M G Halsted, 1936-1937.