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Title:WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 337-1 (fragment) [Main Title]
Film Number:IWM 662a
Other titles:
Summary: I. Newsreel item on the march of half of 38th (Jewish) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, past the Lord Mayor of London "To Garrison Jerusalem?", 4th February 1918.
II. Newsreel item on a Holt tractor under trial pulling a limber and men through the desert of Palestine, 1917.
III. Newsreel item on a horsed transport column passing over a small pontoon bridge, Palestine, 1917.
IV. Newsreel item on gunners watering and feeding their horses in a small village near Cambrai, Western Front, November 1917.
Description: The men of the battalion carry a Star of David flag, and despite the rain have drawn quite a crowd to cheer them. They come level with the Mansion House where the Lord Mayor waits to receive them as they pass.
Production Details: Department of Information (Production sponsor)
War Office Cinema Committee (Production sponsor)
Topical Film Company (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Marshall, Horace (person)
London, Lord Mayor of (person)
British Army, Royal Fusiliers, Bn 38 (regiment/service)
British Army, Egyptian Expeditionary Force (regiment/service)
British Army, Egyptian Expeditionary Force (regiment/service)
British Army, gunners (regiment/service)
Keywords: ceremonies, British - display (object name)
transport, British military - prime mover: Holt tractor (object name)
supplies, British, movement [RA] - misc (object name)
animals, mammals: horse (object name)
31/3(41) (event)
01/3(569) (event)
01/3(569) (event)
01/3(4-15).7 (event)
GB, England & London, EC <Mansion House> (geography)
Palestine (geography)
Palestine (geography)
Cambrai, Nord, France (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: 205 ft; Running time: 4 mins