ADVANCE OF THE CRUSADERS INTO MESOPOTAMIA - 2 [Main]


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  • Vuosi: 1919
  • Kesto: 15 mins
  • Kuvaus: Indian soldiers resting after a march. An Indian water-truck column refilling their trucks from a river using hosepipes and pumps. The construction of a sandbag observation tower, and British troops observing the fire of a 6-inch howitzer from the tower, near Ramadi. British Army ground observers signal to aircraft, using strips of cloth laid out as letters on the ground. A 6-inch howitzer and an 18-pounder firing from behind scrim netting. The Al Malwaiyah tower, part of the Great Mosque at Samarra, (described in the film as "a Turkish spiral observation tower"). British soldiers checking the belongings of Turkish prisoners. A long sequence showing the Arch of Chosroess at Ctesiphon.The British captured the settlement on 22 December. The people return to the settlement with their possessions, "restoring their goods and shackles (sic) to their homes". British soldiers buy oranges from a street stall.
    I. British and Indian forces, and the Arch of Chosroess, Mesopotamian Front, 1918.II. The Jewish settlement at Mulebbis under British control, Palestine Front, December 1917.
  • Avainsanat: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force / Indian Army, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force / British Army, Egyptian Expeditionary Force / equipment, Indian - engineering: water pump / transport, Indian military - truck, special: water truck / engineering, military, British / weapons, British - gun: 6-inch 26cwt howitzer / communications, British military - direct: ground-to-air panels / weapons, British - gun: 18-pounder field gun / combat, British - artillery bombardment / prisoners of war, Turkish - reception / buildings, Mesopotamian - religious: mosque / buildings, Mesopotamian - historic / arts, Mesopotamian - architecture / buildings, Jewish - residential / refugees, Jewish - return / society, British military - friendship / 01/3(567) / 01/3(569) / Turkey & Samarra, Mesopotamia / Turkey & Ctesiphon, Mesopotamia / Turkey & Ramadi area, Mesopotamia / Turkey & Mulebbis, Palestine / desert
  • Sisältölähde: Imperial War Museums
  • Oikeudet: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Tuotantoyhtiö: Jury's Imperial Pictures
  • Väri: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound