INSPECTION OF THE IMPERIAL CAMEL CORPS [Main Title]

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  • Title: INSPECTION OF THE IMPERIAL CAMEL CORPS [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 6
  • Other titles: ON THE PALESTINE FRONT [Series Title]
  • Summary: 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.
  • 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).
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Cinema Committee (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company) Jeapes, Harold (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Egyptian Expeditionary Force (regiment/service) British Army, Imperial Camel Corps, 3rd Battalion (regiment/service) British Army, Imperial Camel Corps, 4th Battalion (regiment/service) Indian Army, Egyptian Expeditionary Force (regiment/service) Indian Army, Hong Kong-Singapore Mountain Bty (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: ceremonies, British - display: parade (object name) ceremonies, Indian - display: parade (object name) animals, mammals: camel (object name) weapons, British - gun: 10-pounder mountain gun & [Indian] (object name) training, British military - specialist: camels (object name) training, Indian military - weapons: artillery (object name) 01/3(569) (event) Turkey & Palestine (geography) desert (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 1094 ft; Running time: 18 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Intertitles: these are flashframes. Summary: see also IWM 58 and IWM 60. Technical: most of the film appears as slightly out-of-focus.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 6

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    IWM 58 (PALESTINE (rough material) [Allocated Title]) IWM 60 (PALESTINE SECTIONS [Main Title])
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