Black and white photograph depicting American writer, broadcaster and traveller, Lowell Thomas, posing with the gun in a plane. Thomas travelled with Harry Chase to film the war in Jerusalem in 1917, arriving just in time to film British troops, led by General Edmund Allenby, marching into Jerusalem on 11 December 1917.

Shortly after this, Thomas famously filmed T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), showing the footage to audiences worldwide, yielding mixed feelings from Lawrence.

This photograph was taken during that time, which was also when James McBey was serving as Official War Artist in Egypt, having begun this on 26 May 1917. The photograph is kept within a hardback photograph album, with faux leather overlay, along with a series of other related images.