camel-keeper

Updated: May 5, 2025

These volunteers were in civil life builders and joiners; railwaymen, tramwaymen, engineers; clerks, shorthand-writers, draughtsmen, warehousemen, packers; carters and fitters; telephonists, chemists. When half of C Company was suddenly converted into the British Camel Corps at Khartum it was discovered to contain the camel-keeper of Bostock's menagerie.

Sir Gerald B. (Gerald Berkeley) Hurst - With Manchesters in the East