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 ...

Very jumbled film of British forces, mainly on the Palestine Front, otherwise Mesopotamian or Salonika Fronts, 1917-1918.

Some of the film comes directly, including the captions, from IWM 17 ...

British forces on the Mesopotamian Front during and after the Battle of Ramadi, 28-29 September 1917.

(Reel 1) An Indian Infantry battalion (probably from 7th (Meerut) Division, as are all ...

Unedited film of British forces on the Mesopotamian Front, and of the Arch of Chosroess at Ctesiphon, 1917.

I. (Reel 1) Mainly unrelated scenes. A British 6-inch 26cwt (?) howitzer. Turkish ...

Jumbled film apparently of the raid into Kurdistan by Norton's Column of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, September 1917.

A limbered 13-pounder battery followed by a vehicle column. Soldiers standing ...

British guns and forces on the Salonika Front, probably early 1917.

An Indian mountain battery with 10-pounder mountain guns. A British 2.75-inch mountain gun (?) dug in on a hillside under scrim netting. ...

I. Burial of Prince Christian.

I. 'OBSEQUIES OF THE KING'S UNCLE. Prince Christian buried with full military honours in St. George's Chapel Windsor.' HA as military band (men of the 2nd Life Guards and Coldstream ...