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.