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 ...

Unedited film of British, Indian and Australian forces, mainly playing various sports, Palestine Front, July 1918.

Australian troops practising bomb (hand grenade) throwing from slit trenches. The explosions are ...

Wine production at the Jewish settlement of Rishon le Zion, followed by the arrival of dignitaries for the ceremonial laying of the foundation stone of the Jewish University, both Palestine, summer 1918.

A group of ...

The procession of the Manunal leaving Cairo, August 1918.

The Manunal was a covering mat or carpet for the Kaa'ba outside the Great Mosque at Mecca. Very highly decorated, a new one was made in Cairo each year 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, ...

Somewhat muddled footage principally showing the ruins at Baalbec, and the arrival of British troops in a middle-eastern town, presumably also in Palestine, 1918.

Views of the ruins of Baalbec, with occasional ...

Unedited film of General Sir Edmund Allenby's arrival in Cairo following the Armistice with Turkey, November 1918.

The film may be out of time-sequence. It shows General Allenby talking to senior officers (none ...

Portrait shots of British generals of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force and of General Sir Edmund Allenby, 1918.

I. Lieutenant-General Sir William R Marshall, C-in-C of the MEF, filmed ...

Jumbled material of the British forces on the Palestine Front, 1918 (?).

All very dark, poor quality film. It includes scenes of Gurkhas in trenches, 60-pounder guns firing, British soldiers walking through a lemon ...

Semi-contemporary material of the first British forces in France and the creation of the massed armies in Britain at the start of the First World War, 1914-1916.

Arrival of the Indian Corps in Marseilles in September ...

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 ...

Cartoon of the British military and industrial contribution to the Western Front up to the end of 1917.

The film starts with a cartoonist drawing figures which then animate themselves. The Kaiser sharpens a knife to ...

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 ...

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 film starts with U-35 casting off at Cattaro (not Trieste as given) and passing the Austrian fleet at anchor. The crew of the captured SS Parkgate row to U-35 which the English captain boards. The destruction party goes to the ...

Miscellaneous stockshots of leading Allied naval officers, circa 1918, many duplicated from other films.

I. Nelson's Column decorated for a war bonds rally. II. Admiral Sturdee poses with vice-admiral's flag flown at ...

Appeal for the War Work Volunteers, incorporating material from IWM 552, THE WAY OF A SHIP ON THE SEA.

Bringing food from overseas - aerial views of a convoy, escorting cruiser USS Birmingham, and an Astre-Torres ...

Probably 3rd or 4th Battalion, Imperial Camel Corps, with its camel battery, the Hong Kong-Singapore Mountain Battery, training on the Palestine Front, early 1917.

The display begins with a ...

An athletics meeting for servicemen and women from Britain, the Imperial forces and the US Army at Stamford Bridge football ground, Fulham, London, 7th September 1918.

The film starts with a posed group of the RAF ...

Jumbled material of British troops on the Mesopotamian Front, 1917-1918.

The material was mainly used in the WITH THE FORCES IN MESOPOTAMIA series. It opens with two Holt tractors of 13th ...

British film of the inhabitants of the River Tigris shoreline from Basra to Kut al Amara, mostly filmed from a moving boat, 1918 (?).

I (Reel 1) The opening is filmed from the river. First, ...

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 ...