GENERAL ALLENBY'S ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM [Main]


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  • Other title(s): WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 339-2 [alternative (fragment)]
  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 14 mins
  • Description: I. Views of the honour guard at the Jaffa Gate, composed of English, Welsh, Scottish, Indian, Australian and New Zealand troops, with twenty soldiers each from Italy and France continuing the line inside the gate. Allenby meets the military governor of Jerusalem, Brigadier-General W M Borton, at the gate and walks in procession through the streets. The group is headed by two ADCs, Captain W L Naper and Lieutenant R H Andrew, then General Allenby flanked by the heads of the French and Italian contingents, Lieutenant-Colonel P de Piepape and Lieutenant-Colonel F D'Agostino, each with one staff officer. Then come Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Dalmeny and Lieutenant-Colonel A P Wavell (the future Field Marshal Lord Wavell). The remaining group includes the French High Commissioner, M Picot, Louis Matignon (French orientalist), Major T E Lawrence ('Lawrence of Arabia'), Major-General L J Bols, Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Chetwode and Brigadier-General G P Dawnay, Allenby's Chief of Staff. After the group has conversed amongst itself and Allenby has greeted civil dignitaries, his proclamation is read out with Allenby himself, de Piepape and d'Agostino on the platform. Allenby and his staff, who made a point of walking into the city, then leave on horseback via the Jaffa Gate. Allenby had been less than fifteen minutes in the city.II. Allenby receives the GCMG from Connaught, Major-General L J Bols receives the KCMG and Lieutenant-General Bulfin the KCMG also. A final portrait shot of Allenby closes the film.
    I. Newsreel item on the entry of General Allenby into Jerusalem and the reading of his proclamation, Palestine, 11 December 1917.II. Newsreel item on the Duke of Connaught decorating Allenby and some of his officers at the Turkish barracks at Mount Zion, Palestine, 20 March 1918.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman / Borton, W M / Naper, W L / Andrew, R H / Piepape, P de / D'Agostino, Francesco / Dalmeny (Lord) / Wavell, Archibald Percival / Picot, M / Lawrence, Thomas Edward / Bols, Louis J / Chetwode, Philip Walhouse / Dawnay, Guy Payan / Arthur, Prince (Duke of Connaught) / Bulfin, Edward S / British Army, Egyptian Expeditionary Force / Australian Army, Australian Imperial Force / Australian Army, Egyptian Expeditionary Force / Australian Army, Australian Light Horse / New Zealand Military Forces, Egyptian Expeditionary Force / New Zealand Military Forces, New Zealand Mounted Bde / Indian Army, Egyptian Expeditionary Force / British Army, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, French Contingent / British Army, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, Italian Contingent / French Army, French Contingent, Egyptian Expeditionary Force / Royal Italian Army & Italian Contingent, Egyptian Expeditionary Force / ceremonies, British - event-related: entry into Jerusalem (Allenby) / propaganda, British - inspirational / ceremonies, British - event-related: investiture / 01/3(569).63 / 01/3(569) / Turkey & Jerusalem, Palestine / Turkey & Mount Zion, Palestine
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Topical Film Company
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound