The advance of 15th Indian Division up the Euphrates valley, Mesopotamian Front, 1918.

A column of Ford light trucks carrying "supplies". (Compare with the same scene in IWM 68). Men of the Gurkha Rifles moving through an RFA park. Soldiers of 2nd Battalion, the Norfolk Regiment, wading across the River Diyala at Masina on 22 April. Armoured cars being towed across the river. Turkish prisoners on camels crossing the river. One 60-pounder being pulled across the river by British troops, another being transported by a tow ferry. Burmese sappers building a trestle bridge over the river on 16 April. Indian and British soldiers starting to dig a trench system. Indian machine-gunners practising with the Lewis machine gun. A 6-inch howitzer being fired. A view of the river gunboat HMS Caddis Fly (?). Shell fire on the Turkish positions, followed by a staged Turkish surrender and the prisoners being escorted through the desert. A small British soda-water machine, to produce drinks "for the wounded". (Compare with the same scene in IWM 61.) An ass-drawn scoop and water-channel drawing water from the River Diyala.

Notes

Title: the shotsheet describes this as 'Mesopotamia Reel 9', loaned by Jury. It is possibly part of the series ADVANCE OF THE CRUSADERS INTO MESOPOTAMIA.

Summary: see also IWM 61, IWM 68 (which duplicates most of the material in this film), IWM 71, IWM 72 and IWM 77-81.