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Description: | 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.
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.
35mm | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Horace Lord Mayor of desert 01/3(4-15).7 Bn 38 British Army 31/3(41) 01/3(569) gunners Marshall Royal Fusiliers Egyptian Expeditionary Force London | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Topical Film Company | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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