WITH ALLENBY IN PALESTINE : a Lowell Thomas Adventure Film [Main]


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  • Year: 1927
  • Runtime: 8 mins
  • Description: 2nd Battalion, the Black Watch, led by its pipe band along a desert road. "The Australian Camel Corps" (actually pack camels). The bombardment of Gaza in September 1917. A street scene in Jaffa; camels and civilians moving on the Jerusalem-Jaffa road. British soldiers and Indian lancers on the move. A sentry on the Mount of Olives. The Duke of Connaught decorating General Allenby at Mount Zion barracks on 20th March 1918. A panorama of Jerusalem showing the Mosque of Omar and the Wailing Wall, the Well of David, and the Sepulchres of David, Absolom and Rachel.
    Compilation film of events in Palestine, autumn 1917 to spring 1918.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / Connaught [George] (HRH Duke of) / Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman / British Army, Black Watch, 2nd Battalion / British Army, Egyptian Expeditionary Force / Indian Army, Egyptian Expeditionary Force / combat, British - artillery bombardment / ceremonies, British - event-related: investiture / 01/3(569) / Palestine & Jerusalem / Palestine & Gaza / Palestine & Jaffa / desert
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Eastman Kodak Company
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound