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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.

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    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 ...