BRITISH ADVANCE ON THE EUPHRATES UNDER THE COMMAND OF MAJOR-GENERAL BROOKING [Main]


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  • Alternativ tittel: ADVANCE OF THE CRUSADERS INTO MESOPOTAMIA - 9 (?) [alternative]
  • År: 1920
  • Lengde: 15 mins
  • Beskrivelse: A column of Ford light trucks carrying "supplies". (Compare with the same scene in IWM 68). Men of the Gurkha Rifles moving through an RFA park. Soldiers of 2nd Battalion, the Norfolk Regiment, wading across the River Diyala at Masina on 22 April. Armoured cars being towed across the river. Turkish prisoners on camels crossing the river. One 60-pounder being pulled across the river by British troops, another being transported by a tow ferry. Burmese sappers building a trestle bridge over the river on 16 April. Indian and British soldiers starting to dig a trench system. Indian machine-gunners practising with the Lewis machine gun. A 6-inch howitzer being fired. A view of the river gunboat HMS Caddis Fly (?). Shell fire on the Turkish positions, followed by a staged Turkish surrender and the prisoners being escorted through the desert. A small British soda-water machine, to produce drinks "for the wounded". (Compare with the same scene in IWM 61.) An ass-drawn scoop and water-channel drawing water from the River Diyala.
    The advance of 15th Indian Division up the Euphrates valley, Mesopotamian Front, 1918.
  • Nøkkelord: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force / British Army, Norfolk Regiment, 2nd Battalion / Indian Army, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force / Indian Army, 15th Indian Division / Indian Army, Burma Sappers and Miners / Indian Army, Gurkhas / Royal Navy, CADDISFLY (HMS), gunboat / transport, British military - truck: Ford light lorry / supplies, British, movement [RA] - misc / operations, British military - movement: march / weapons, British - gun: 60-pounder / engineering, military, Indian: bridge building / training, Indian military - weapons: machine gun / weapons, British - smallarm: Lewis machine gun & [Indian] / weapons, British - gun: 6-inch 26cwt howitzer / ships, British naval - light forces: Caddis Fly (?) / combat, British - artillery bombardment [d] / prisoners of war, Turkish - surrender / prisoners of war, Turkish - movement / society, British military - sustenance / society, Mesopotamian - ethnic / 01/3(567) / Turkey & Euphrates River, Mesopotamia / Turkey & Diyala River, Mesopotamia / Turkey & Masina, Mesopotamia / desert / camera / World War, 1914-1918 -- Motion pictures and the war
  • Leverandør: Imperial War Museums
  • Rettigheter: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Produksjonsselskap: Jury's Imperial Pictures
  • Farge: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound