Title:PRESENTATION OF FRENCH DECORATIONS TO BRITISH TROOPS IN EGYPT BY GENERAL BAILLOUD [Main Title]
Film Number:IWM 1
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Summary: General Bailloud decorates three soldiers of British 7th Mounted Brigade at Ismailia, Egypt, 1 August 1917.
Description: A street scene, civilians, mainly dressed in white, walk along the pavement. A car bearing General Bailloud and General Sir Edmund Allenby arrives, they mount horses and leave with an escort. At Ismailia General Bailloud inspects the 7th Mounted Brigade, Desert Mounted Corps with Allenby watching. Bailloud presents the Knight's Cross, Legion of Honour, to Captain R C Layton and the Médaille Militaire to Sergeant-Major J East and to Corporal R Thornton, all of the 1/1st Sherwood Rangers. The officer helping is probably Lieutenant-Colonel H Thorpe, in command of the regiment. (Note that 7th Mounted Brigade, as Corps reserve troops, recently returned from Salonika, did not carry swords.)
Production Details: War Office Cinema Committee (Production sponsor)
Topical Film Company (Production company)
Jeapes, Harold (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Bailloud, Maurice Camille (person)
Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman (person)
Layton, R C (person)
East, J (person)
Thornton, R (person)
Thorpe, H (person)
British Army, Egyptian Expeditionary Force (regiment/service)
British Army, Desert Mounted Corps (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Mounted, 7 (regiment/service)
British Army, Yeomanry, Sherwood Rangers, Bn 1/1 (regiment/service)
