SIWA EXPEDITION [Main Title]

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  • Title: SIWA EXPEDITION [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 5
  • Other titles: THE NEW CRUSADERS (rough material) [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: Rough material of the Siwa Expedition of February and events in Gaza and El Arish of March and April, Egypt and Palestine Front, 1917.
  • Description: A British column of Rolls-Royce armoured cars and Ford Model T light cars prepares for the expedition. This is followed by their arrival in El Arish with "notables" assembling before the governor. In the desert the motor column signals with semaphore to part of a flanking column. The film then jumps back to a bedouin encampment outside El Arish. Inside El Arish the Sinai Police prepare to set out on patrol. Doctors work in a dressing station. In the desert there are a mounted patrol, a laden camel train, and more scenes of the motor column. Finally a large number of prisoners, some in Turkish uniform, being gathered inside an open square at El Arish.
  • Alternative Title: THE NEW CRUSADERS (rough material) [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 5
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1917
  • 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, Hodgson's Force (regiment/service) Sinai Police (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: armour, British - armoured car: Rolls-Royce (object name) transport, British military - car: Ford Model T light car (object name) communications, British military - direct: semaphore (object name) medical, British military - hospital (object name) operations, British military - preparation (object name) operations, British military - sortie (object name) prisoners of war, Turkish - custody (object name) 31/3(621) [Siwa Expedition, 1917] (event) 01/3(569) (event) Egypt & Siwa (?) (geography) Turkey & El Arish, 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: 658 ft; Running time: 11 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 5

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    IWM 17 (THE NEW CRUSADERS : with the British forces on the Palestine Front [Main Title]) IWM 58 (PALESTINE (rough material) [Allocated Title]) IWM 60 (PALESTINE SECTIONS [Main Title])
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