Compilation film of events in Palestine, autumn 1917 to spring 1918.

2nd Battalion, the Black Watch, led by its pipe band along a desert road. "The Australian Camel Corps" (actually pack camels). The bombardment of Gaza in September 1917. A street scene in Jaffa; camels and civilians moving on the Jerusalem-Jaffa road. British soldiers and Indian lancers on the move. A sentry on the Mount of Olives. The Duke of Connaught decorating General Allenby at Mount Zion barracks on 20th March 1918. A panorama of Jerusalem showing the Mosque of Omar and the Wailing Wall, the Well of David, and the Sepulchres of David, Absolom and Rachel.

Notes

Technical: this film is currently held on the same reel as films IWM 1131a and IWM 1131c, the can is marked as IWM 1131-01, but there is no second reel

Remarks: a typical Lowell Thomas mish-mash. The use of what is apparently British official film in this item must again call into question how much of the film normally attributed to Thomas was in fact taken by him

The original material would have been shot on 35mm.