47TH STATIONARY HOSPITAL, GAZA, AND TROOPS IN PALESTINE

This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: IWM 32).

Synopsis

III. A study of the inhabitants as they pick almonds, including a lady "of low caste" (according to the shotsheet) a girl and a veiled lady of high caste. It is not clear whether these are Jewish or Moslem women.

IV. Some of the prisoners are taken away in lorries from the Turkish barracks at Mount Zion, escorted by Australian Light Horse. Other German prisoners are led through the streets of Jerusalem by an escort of Hyderabad Lancers and Australian Light Horse. (According to the shotsheet the prisoners were "hooted by the Jews".)

I. The British Army 47th Stationary Hospital, showing the ward tents, the patients' dining tents, the nurses' dining tent and the local Arab helpers. Gaza, Palestine Front, 1918 (?).

II. Arab soldiers and an officer wearing British-style uniforms with burnouses, as new recruits to the King of Hejaz' Army, Palestine Front, 1918.

III. Almond picking in the Jewish settlement at Rishon le Zion, Palestine Front, probably 1918.

IV. German prisoners being escorted through Jerusalem by Australian and Indian horsemen, Palestine Front, 1918.

Notes

Title: this is taken from the shotsheet.

Summary: see also IWM 18 and IWM 33.

 

Titles

  • 47TH STATIONARY HOSPITAL, GAZA, AND TROOPS IN PALESTINE
 

Technical Data

Year:
1918
Running Time:
15 minutes
Film Gauge (Format):
35mm
Colour:
B&W
Sound:
Silent
Footage:
857 ft
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
GB
Sponsor
Ministry of Information (?)
cameraman
Campbell, J R (?)
cameraman
Hurley, Frank (?)
cameraman
Jeapes, Harold
Production company
Topical Film Company