INSPECTION OF THE IMPERIAL CAMEL CORPS [Main]


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  • Other title(s): ON THE PALESTINE FRONT [series]
  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 18 mins
  • Description: The display begins with a parade and marchpast, followed by men of the ICC setting out for a patrol in the desert and drawing river water for their camels. This is broken by sequences of horse and mule riders in the desert, and a demonstration of assembling its guns by the Hong Kong-Singapore Mountain Battery of the Indian Army, attached to the Imperial Camel Corps (this was the only camel-mounted battery equipped with 10-pounder breechloading mountain guns on active service).
    Probably 3rd or 4th Battalion, Imperial Camel Corps, with its camel battery, the Hong Kong-Singapore Mountain Battery, training on the Palestine Front, early 1917.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Egyptian Expeditionary Force / British Army, Imperial Camel Corps, 3rd Battalion / British Army, Imperial Camel Corps, 4th Battalion / Indian Army, Egyptian Expeditionary Force / Indian Army, Hong Kong-Singapore Mountain Bty / ceremonies, British - display: parade / ceremonies, Indian - display: parade / animals, mammals: camel / weapons, British - gun: 10-pounder mountain gun & [Indian] / training, British military - specialist: camels / training, Indian military - weapons: artillery / 01/3(569) / Turkey & Palestine / desert
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Topical Film Company
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound