Spanish language version of a newsreel item on British horsed transport detouring round the dry Wadi Hersi, north of Gaza, since the retreating Turks have blown the bridge, Palestine, November 1917.

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I. French language version of a newsreel item on British soldiers chasing and catching turkeys for Christmas at a French farm while the farmer's wife watches, December 1917. II. French language version of a newsreel item on Arab workers in Palestine ...

The men of the battalion carry a Star of David flag, and despite the rain have drawn quite a crowd to cheer them. They come level with the Mansion House where the Lord Mayor waits to receive them as they pass.

I. Newsreel item on the march of ...

The King and Queen, in an open landau, drive out of the gates of Buckingham Palace. Their escort is composed of mounted troops of all the Imperial forces: British, Indian and Australian horsemen leading, with New Zealand, South African, Newfoundland, ...

I. Newsreel item on a long mule train, with Indian Army drivers, in the deserts of Palestine, late 1917.

II. Brief newsreel item on a long line of limbers and GS wagons making their way forward down a road in the rear areas of the Western Front ...

I. French language version of a newsreel item of an Arab camel train in the deserts of Palestine, late 1917.

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The battalion is drawn up outside its barracks, somewhere near London. The wife of the brigadier-general commanding the depot presents boxes of shamrocks to the officers, and they in turn pass among the men handing out the shamrocks. The men give ...

Both the fte and the film stress the fact that the Duchess was American. The children present her with a bouquet in their school playground. She addresses them while a child waves a US flag behind her head. On the dais with her is a man in the ...

I. Newsreel item on British soldiers receiving the surrender of Turkish troops, Mesopotamia, probably May 1918.

The handful of Turks come in from the desert and walk past a British 4.5-inch howitzer. Camels and ...

Report on the latest news from the South Atlantic with interviews with Jon Connell, Col. Neil Maude, Air Chief Marshall, Sir Anthony Steedman, Edward Gueritz, Andrew Thompson, Harold Blakemore, Patrick Keatley, Philip Windsor, ...

I. 'TANK BUSTERS.' Royal Air Force (RAF) ground crews replace the aerodynamic fairing on a 40mm Vickers Type S gun mounted under the wing of a Hawker Hurricane Mk IID fighter/ground attack aircraft. The commentary introduces the new mark of Hurricane ...

Malta Strikes Back.

I. 'MALTA STRIKES BACK.' Titling is superimposed over the Royal Air Force crest. A close up of the front page of "The Egyptian Gazette" shows an article written by Sir Stafford Cripps, British ...