INSPECTION OF THE IMPERIAL CAMEL CORPS

This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: IWM 6).

Synopsis

Probably 3rd or 4th Battalion, Imperial Camel Corps, with its camel battery, the Hong Kong-Singapore Mountain Battery, training on the Palestine Front, early 1917.

The display begins with a parade and marchpast, followed by men of the ICC setting out for a patrol in the desert and drawing river water for their camels. This is broken by sequences of horse and mule riders in the desert, and a demonstration of assembling its guns by the Hong Kong-Singapore Mountain Battery of the Indian Army, attached to the Imperial Camel Corps (this was the only camel-mounted battery equipped with 10-pounder breechloading mountain guns on active service).

Notes

Intertitles: these are flashframes.

Summary: see also IWM 58 and IWM 60.

Technical: most of the film appears as slightly out-of-focus.

 

Titles

  • INSPECTION OF THE IMPERIAL CAMEL CORPS
Series Title:
ON THE PALESTINE FRONT
 

Technical Data

Year:
1918
Running Time:
18 minutes
Film Gauge (Format):
35mm
Colour:
B&W
Sound:
Silent
Footage:
1094 ft
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
GB
Sponsor
War Office Cinema Committee (?)
cameraman
Jeapes, Harold
Production company
Topical Film Company