Scenes of Gaza and its surroundings shortly after its capture by British forces, Palestine Front, November 1917.

(Reel 1) A panorama of Gaza under British occupation. (The two ships described as shallow draft monitors which bombarded Gaza are HMS Moth and HMS Caddis Fly (?) serving in Mesopotamia.) The ruins of the Great Mosque: "information was received that the Turks were using the Great Mosque as an ammunition dump" and so "the Turks paid the penalty for their sacrilegious trickery, our guns fired five rounds at the Mosque, with disastrous results". British and Indian troops with Turkish Army prisoners. A final portrait shot of General Sir Edmund Allenby, commanding the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. (Reel 2) A series of stockshots. A camel train carrying water, another camel train encamped. 60-pounder guns of 75th Division (?) in action. Limbered 18-pounders entering Gaza. The old trenches around Gaza shown by night and day. British soldiers in part of the ruins of Gaza. Two German prisoners taken along with the Turks. Australian Light Horse, probably in a training exercise, making a dismounted charge in the sand dunes. British Lewis machine-gunners training.

Notes

Title: this is taken from the store ledger.

Intertitles: these are all flashframes.

Date: the shotsheet refers to Allenby as "Lord Allenby", a title he did not receive until after the war.

Summary: see also IWM 6, IWM 58, IWM 60, IWM 71 and IWM 79.