The British campaign on the Palestine Front, February to November 1917.

(Reel 1) The raid against the stronghold of Sayad Ahmed of the Sennusi tribesmen at Siwa, made in February 1917 by a force of three light ...

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 ...

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 Duke of Connaught, on a tour of Egypt and the Palestine Front, inspects units of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force with General Allenby, March 1918.

I. The film opens with an attached scene of mule transport and ...

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 ...

The occupation of Es Salt by 60th (London) Division, Palestine Front, March or April 1918.

British troops of 60th Division occupied Es Salt twice, between 26 and 28 March, and between 30 April and 3 May. This film ...

Unedited film of the Nebi-Nusa festivals, the arrival of the International Zionist Commission, and the visit of Egyptian 1st Infantry Regiment to the Mosque of Omar, Jerusalem, April 1918.

This is the unedited ...

Australian airmen, horsemen and members of the Imperial Camel Corps on the Palestine Front, 1918.

I. The first part shows 1 Squadron Australian Flying Corps in Palestine. (Reel 1) The squadron prepares for a ...

Mixed film of British, Indian and Jewish forces, including the meeting of General Allenby with Chaim Weizmann in Jerusalem, Palestine Front, May 1918.

(Reel 1) An auction of British Army horses to civilians. A troop ...

Unedited film of boats on the River Nile carrying compressed horse fodder ('tiffin'), Egypt, 1918 (?).

The first boat, a steamer, tows two barges, followed by a Victoria Shipping Line steamer 'pushing' its barges. A ...

III. A study of the inhabitants as they pick almonds, including a lady "of low caste" (according to the shotsheet) a girl and a veiled lady of high caste. It is not clear whether these are Jewish or Moslem women.

IV. Some of the prisoners are ...

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 ...