Support troops included a mountain artillery battery, a machine gun squadron, Royal Engineers, a field ambulance, and an administrative train.

[1] However the British Army forces serving in Egypt at the start of the First World War did not possess their own camel formation.

The first units of what became the Imperial Camel Corps were four company-sized formations that conducted long-range patrols around the Suez Canal and the Sinai Desert.

[3] The Imperial Camel Brigade was formed on 19 December 1916,[4][5] under the command of Brigadier General Clement Leslie Smith VC.

[3] Around the same time long-range patrols, each of about thirty men, went into the south and south-east of the Sinai desert to detect any Ottoman incursion into the area.

The ICC undertook similar patrols in the north to protect the rail and water lines, which were vital for any British attack.

[4][10] On 9 January 1917 the ICC was involved in another victory during the Battle of Rafa, which forced the Ottomans to withdraw the Sinai outposts towards Gaza.

This also reduced the need for independent camel patrols across the Sinai; in May the EEF consolidated the now-surplus companies into a new unit, the 4th (ANZAC) Battalion.

The 4th (Anzac) Battalion did succeed in capturing Hill 3039 overlooking the city and managed to hold out for twenty-four hours in the face of artillery and infantry attacks, until ordered to withdraw.

The camel brigade was unable to support the light horsemen, which were attacked on the left flank and forced to withdraw.

Two of them fought with T. E. Lawrence in the Arab Revolt, and in July 1918 carried out operations sabotaging the Hejaz railway line.

On one side it is inscribed with the names of all the members of the corps who died during the war, while on the front is the sentiment;To the Glorious and Immortal Memory of the Officers, N.C.O.s and Men of the Imperial Camel Corps – British, Australian, New Zealand, Indian – who fell in action or died of wounds and disease in Egypt, Sinai, and Palestine, 1916, 1917, 1918.

[12]The monument also lists all the battles and engagements fought by the corps; The strength of the brigade/corps in the field was around 3,380 men and 3,880 camels, with one battalion resting.