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    I. Newsreel item on British soldiers receiving the surrender of Turkish troops, Mesopotamia, probably May 1918.

    The handful of Turks come in from the desert and walk past a British 4.5-inch howitzer. Camels and ...

     
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    French language version of a newsreel devoted to a review of the British Empire's war effort, 1914-1918.

    The film starts with a declaration that the war was forced upon Britain by "Germany's sinister designs". It ...

     
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    The men of the battalion carry a Star of David flag, and despite the rain have drawn quite a crowd to cheer them. They come level with the Mansion House where the Lord Mayor waits to receive them as they pass.

    I. Newsreel item on the march of ...

     
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    The King and Queen, in an open landau, drive out of the gates of Buckingham Palace. Their escort is composed of mounted troops of all the Imperial forces: British, Indian and Australian horsemen leading, with New Zealand, South African, Newfoundland, ...

     
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    Both the fte and the film stress the fact that the Duchess was American. The children present her with a bouquet in their school playground. She addresses them while a child waves a US flag behind her head. On the dais with her is a man in the ...

     
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    British and Indian troops on the Mesopotamian Front, April 1918.

    (Reel 1) A poor quality scene showing a company of Burma Sappers building a trestle bridge over the River Diyala on 16 April. ...

     
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    I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on the building of a giant billboard poster in Trafalgar Square, London, February 1918.

    The artist, Bert Thomas, supervises the construction of the poster. It is a mural ...

     
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    I. French language version of a newsreel item of an Arab camel train in the deserts of Palestine, late 1917.

    Notes

    Production: see IWM 651a for production details

    Summary: note that an English language version of this item is IWM ...

     
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    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 ...

     
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    KURKUCH 1918

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    The award of decorations to British and Indian soldiers in Kurkuch, Mesopotamian Front, 7-11 May 1918.

    The British held Kurkuch only for a few days in 1918. This film shows British soldiers ...

     
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    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 ...

     
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    The battalion is drawn up outside its barracks, somewhere near London. The wife of the brigadier-general commanding the depot presents boxes of shamrocks to the officers, and they in turn pass among the men handing out the shamrocks. The men give ...

     
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    Short film of Indian sappers laying a railway line, Mesopotamian Front, 1918.

    Flatcars carry the rails, sleepers and the troops themselves forward, as they build the line across the desert. ...

     
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    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 ...

     
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    Everyday life in Mesopotamia under the British occupation, 1918.

    (Reel 1) The film's only caption, "Indian troops marching through Baghdad". They are wearing winter clothing. A British horse ...

     
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    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 ...

     
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    The ruins of Babylon and the town of Baghdad under British occupation, 1918 (?).

    The ruins of Babylon, concentrating on the Temple of E'Sagilo and the basalt lion statue, including some ...

     
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    I. Newsreel item on a long mule train, with Indian Army drivers, in the deserts of Palestine, late 1917.

    II. Brief newsreel item on a long line of limbers and GS wagons making their way forward down a road in the rear areas of the Western Front ...