Title:BRITISH ADVANCE ON THE EUPHRATES UNDER THE COMMAND OF MAJOR-GENERAL BROOKING [Main Title]
Film Number:IWM 82
Other titles:ADVANCE OF THE CRUSADERS INTO MESOPOTAMIA - 9 (?) [Alternative Title]
Summary: The advance of 15th Indian Division up the Euphrates valley, Mesopotamian Front, 1918.
Description: 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.
Alternative Title:ADVANCE OF THE CRUSADERS INTO MESOPOTAMIA - 9 (?) [Alternative Title]
Production Details: Jury's Imperial Pictures (Production company)
Jury, William F (Production individual)
Varges, Ariel L (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force (regiment/service)
British Army, Norfolk Regiment, 2nd Battalion (regiment/service)
Indian Army, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force (regiment/service)
Indian Army, 15th Indian Division (regiment/service)
Indian Army, Burma Sappers and Miners (regiment/service)
Indian Army, Gurkhas (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, CADDISFLY (HMS), gunboat (regiment/service)
Keywords: transport, British military - truck: Ford light lorry (object name)
supplies, British, movement [RA] - misc (object name)
operations, British military - movement: march (object name)
weapons, British - gun: 60-pounder (object name)
engineering, military, Indian: bridge building (object name)
training, Indian military - weapons: machine gun (object name)
weapons, British - smallarm: Lewis machine gun & [Indian] (object name)
weapons, British - gun: 6-inch 26cwt howitzer (object name)
ships, British naval - light forces: Caddis Fly (?) (object name)
combat, British - artillery bombardment [d] (object name)
prisoners of war, Turkish - surrender (object name)
prisoners of war, Turkish - movement (object name)
society, British military - sustenance (object name)
society, Mesopotamian - ethnic (object name)
01/3(567) (event)
Turkey & Euphrates River, Mesopotamia (geography)
Turkey & Diyala River, Mesopotamia (geography)
Turkey & Masina, Mesopotamia (geography)
desert (concept)
camera (concept)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Silent
Soundtrack language: None
Title language: English
Subtitle language: English
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 860 ft; Running time: 15 mins