British soldiers bathing outside their dugouts at Mansura Ridge, before the Third Battle of Gaza, Palestine, October 1917

Photograph, World War One, Middle East (1914-1918), Palestine 1917.

The caption on the image states: 'Mansura Ridge, in front of Gaza, before the attack of Oct 1917'.

Mansura Ridge was captured by the British forces during the Second Battle of Gaza in April 1917.

From a collection of photographs taken by Corporal Joseph Egerton, Shropshire Yeomanry in Sinai and Palestine.