Sculpted by Major Cecil Brown, who served in the corps, with bronze elements cast by A.B. Burton, it commemorates the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade (ICCB) was a camel-mounted infantry brigade that the British Empire raised in December 1916 during the First World War for service in the Middle East. It was unveiled in unveiled on 22 July 1921 by Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Chetwode who was the first commander of the Desert Mounted Corps.