Scenes in Jaffa under British occupation, Palestine Front, probably late 1917.
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being ...
Mixed film of 60th Division at Jerusalem and the ANZAC Mounted Division at Jericho, Palestine Front, late 1917.
A portrait shot of an unidentified junior officer of the Australian Light Horse. Next an inspection of ...
Men of the Newfoundland Regiment, just out of the line, marching to their rest billets, Western Front, possibly May 1917.
The marchers, in greatcoats and helmets, are very muddy. A considerably smarter marching ...
The funeral of Hussein Kemal, first Sultan of Egypt, in Cairo, 10 October 1917.
The chief mourner is the Sultan's brother and successor, Ahmed Fuad I. The road to the palace has many spectators, and British soldiers ...
A contingent of the Egyptian Labour Corps from recruitment in Egypt to arrival and work in France, 1917.
A pan of the assembly camp in Egypt, tented and open, where the "recruits of all provinces dressed in various ...
The prisoner of war camp at El Maadi (or Heliopolis ?) in Egypt for Turkish other ranks prisoners, 1917 (?).
Views of the camp, showing that "prisoners have ample room for exercise". The prisoners' band of mandolins, ...
Extremely jumbled and mixed rough material - now also held in more coherent form as IWM 42 - of the visit of Lowell Thomas to the deserts of the Middle East, autumn 1917.
The film runs in ...
Alternative version of the film held as IWM 41, assembled by IWM staff to restore some approximate coherence to the material.
The assembly groups the films into episodes as follows: (Reel 1) ...
Rough material of the Siwa Expedition of February and events in Gaza and El Arish of March and April, Egypt and Palestine Front, 1917.
A British column of Rolls-Royce armoured cars and Ford Model T light cars ...
French newsreel of the French contribution to the Sherifian revolt in Arabia, November 1917.
Before leaving from Port Said, Colonel Brmond, the head of the French mission to the Hejaz forces, is made a Commander ...
I. French newsreel item on Japanese marines at Port Said, Egypt, November 1917.
The marines, part of the Japanese destroyer flotilla assisting in anti-submarine patrols in the Mediterranean, are rowed ashore from ...
Rough material of British forces on the Palestine Front, 1917.
Most of the film is identical, including the captions, to IWM 17 NEW CRUSADERS. Additional scenes are of rifles firing from concealed loopholes, General ...
