A British Pilot in a Be2c approaching Hit along the course of the River Euphrates, July 1919. Art.IWMART4617, Sydney Carline

A british pilot in a be2c approaching hit along the course of the river euphrates, july 1919. Image: the back view of a pilot from the rear cockpit of a be2c. The struts and wires of the wing structure surround the pilot, who wears helmet and goggles and is looking down and to his left, leaning slightly out of the cockpit. The river euphrates runs below, winding across a flat plain. In the lower left there is a small puff of white smoke, and in the centre right a plume of black smoke can be seen through the wires of the wing. A pink haze of dust fills the horizon in the upper background. Date: 1919 (First World War).