A review of the British war effort on all fronts and at home, 1915-1916.

The episode opens with a table showing the increase in personnel of the Army and Navy in the first twelve months of the war. A new merchant ...

I. British troops enter Bethlehem.

I. 'BRITISH IN BETHLEHEM. Our troops headed by a band march into the Historical City of Bethlehem.' Locals look on as troops march through square.

I. King George V decorates members of the Dover Patrol.

I. 'KING & THE DOVER PATROL. H.M. presents medals to gallant skippers of the famous Drifter Patrol.' MS as the King, wearing overcoat and Army uniform, shakes ...

ROMANCE. Donald, the Colonel's son, appears cowardly as the result of torture in Africa. He woos and weds the gipsy Rilka. His gipsy rival persuades her to leave but Donald recovers his nerve and regains Rilka.

R.1. Title and ...

King George V's visit to the British Army in France and Belgium, 1st-9th December 1918.

The King (in Field Marshal's uniform) with the Prince of Wales, General Sir William Birdwood and other officers inspects graves, ...

Everyday life in the Euphrates valley, at the Jewish settlement of Rishon le Zion, and at Hebron and Abraham's Tomb on the Palestine Front, 1917-1918.

I. The film opens with the Hindiya barrage dam across the ...

"Triumph of the Motor Tractor over the tracts of the wilderness in Palestine". Holt tractor pulling limber and men through the desert in Palestine. Filmed by Harold Jeapes (44ft).

Incomplete Issue. Items include:

IN TARGET LAND "Recording hits from guns great and small" (56ft).

THE ETERNAL CAMEL "The desert still defies Man to invent a transport substitute for the camel which marches to War in Palestine ...

Mr John Bennett's visit to the Royal Newfoundland Regiment in France, 22-26 June 1918.

(Reel 1) Bennett arrives at Boulogne on 22 June, met by Major H A Timewell and war correspondents H M Beeton and Frederick ...

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.

Notes

Production: see IWM 651a for ...

The British patrol lies in a slit trench beside its Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost armoured car. The captured spy sits on top of the car's bonnet and is questioned by an interpreter.

I. Newsreel item on the interrogation of a Turkish spy by British ...

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 ...