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WWI - British War Reviews Reel 4/6 220744-04 | Footage Farm

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[WWI - 1917 - 1918, Middle East:  Cairo; Bethlehem; Desert; Palestine Railroad Construction] 
Remains of stone brick railway bridge sabotaged & bombed by Turks in desert.  Supply wagons, British troops walk w/ horses across floating bridge on pontoons across narrow steam.  Supply wagons pulled w/ teams & pack animals across temporary floating bridge, up sandy road.
03:41:09  “Big guns dragged forward through the sand”.  Large crawler tractors, troops w/ pith helmets & towels ride guns & walk alongside.  Indian troops from machine gun battery walking w/ pack horses thru dust, mountains behind; up mountain pass.
03:42:35  Flash title, re General Allenby returns to Cairo - greeted at railway station by civilians in top hats;  mounts horse & w/ troops w/ British flag rides off.  LS Mounted troops lined for review at desert camp or base.
03:43:30  Title, re Bethlehem; British troops march thru crowds of Arabs, Christians, adults & children lining streets.  
03:44:26  Title re Desert of Mesopotamia & Sultan’s spy in British hands.  Pan from British soldiers in trench & sitting on ground to man in robes questioned by Arab interpreter beside armored truck.  
03:45:24  Title re Cairo, Egypt & fresh horses & mules loaded on railroad train for the front.  Led into cars by Australian (?) handlers & tied, doors shut.  Train begins to pull out.  Troops & horses train in desert & in water along shore; past windmill on dike or ridge.
03:47:23  Title “The Desert Battleship - From the captured city of Jerusalem, General Allenby’s fighters move forward in camel caravans to repel the Sultan’s forces.”  
03:47:34  Camels in long column / line thru sand dunes.
03:48:04  Title re water well destroyed by retreating enemy.  Soldiers standing around it moving rubble.  British troops marching Turkish prisoners of war / POWs on desert; into building.  Stack of confiscated arms & supplies on steps.
03:49:22  Title re Palestine railroad construction.  British & Australian troops laying track by hand; L & S & W & R locomotive pulling flat car dropping rails.
03:50:13  Title re tractor pulling giant howitzer across desert, gun crew riding.  Troops resting / camped in oasis.  Mosque & minarets in Jerusalem old city.  Good shot Mosque of Omar / Dome of the Rock, troops visible in forecourt.  Riding camels.
03:51:36  Title re British troops questioning Turkish prisoner in desert walled compound.  
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