DEIR EL BELAH 1918
Gurkha and British troops during the Third Battle of Gaza, Palestine Front, November 1917.
Gurkhas in a trench prepare for the assault and attack. They are probably 3/3rd Battalion, the Gurkha Rifles, 75th Division, ...
Gurkha and British troops during the Third Battle of Gaza, Palestine Front, November 1917.
Gurkhas in a trench prepare for the assault and attack. They are probably 3/3rd Battalion, the Gurkha Rifles, 75th Division, ...
Spanish language version of a British official film showing the export of meat and sugar from round the world to Britain, and production of fish and bread in the British Isles, early 1918.
I. Cattle on the plains of ...
(Reel 1) The full map shows Europe from Dover east to Frankfurt, and Antwerp south to Orlans. In various stages the map shows the five main phase lines of the war: the furthest German advance of 1914, the line at the end of 1914, the line after the ...
"Mosque and picturesque scenes in Palestine now occupied by the British". Mosque of Omar and surrounding buildings. Filmed by Harold Jeapes (60ft).
Scenes of Gaza and its surroundings shortly after its capture by British forces, Palestine Front, November 1917.
(Reel 1) A panorama of Gaza under British occupation. (The two ships described as shallow draft ...
I. Newsreel item on the entry of General Allenby into Jerusalem and the reading of his proclamation, Palestine, 11 December 1917.
I. Views of the honour guard at the Jaffa Gate, composed of English, Welsh, Scottish, ...
An RAMC doctor, probably Major Paterson, who was doctor in Hebron for 31 years before the war, talking to a group of Arabs; followed by a slow panorama of Hebron, ending at the mosque. Palestine Front, 1918.
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The visit of the Duke of Connaught to the Imperial School of Instruction at Zeitoun to review the cadets, part of his tour of Egypt and the Palestine Front between January and March 1918.
The camp prepares with the ...
Aspects of nature and industrial life on Honduras.
Opening with scenes from Swan Island, the film shows two Europeans offloading supplies from a small motorboat with the help of a Honduran. Shots of fish and crabs are followed by ...
I. An out-of-focus sequence of General Sir Edmund Allenby (?) reviewing a marchpast by British or Indian Cavalry of the Desert Mounted Corps, Palestine Front, 1918.
II. Arab workers filling bottles and operating machinery in the British ...
ETHNOLOGY. Some of the customs of the Swazi.
"Killing the bull" ceremony for rain. The old warriors of the tribe dance and chant inside the cattle kraal watched by young women (24-82); the young warriors dance in front of the young ...
Arrival of the editors of leading Indian newspapers, on a goodwill tour run by the Ministry of Information, at their London hotel, 11th October 1918.
The party of five, with a guide, leave the front of the Hyde Park ...