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Description: | I. Newsreel item on British soldiers receiving the surrender of Turkish troops, Mesopotamia, probably May 1918.
II. Newsreel item on an Italian Carabinieri band playing in central London, September 1918.
III. Newsreel item on a Canadian military sports in England, September 1918.
IV. French language version of a newsreel item on German damage to Béthune (?), Western Front, September 1918.
The handful of Turks come in from the desert and walk past a British 4.5-inch howitzer. Camels and wagons carry other prisoners across a river. A large group of the prisoners is collected together.
Nurses and convalescent soldiers leave Charing Cross Hospital and drive down the Strand to hear the Italians play. The bandsmen themselves arrive by horse-drawn charabanc wearing their full dress uniforms, and mix with British bandsmen, also in full dress. The Italians play their instruments outside the gates of Buckingham Palace.
The sports start with a water-joust in wheelbarrows. There are three successful attempts at the joust and one almost perfect success. A race in which ladies are carried in wheelbarrows. A second wheelbarrow race in which the soldiers pushing are blindfolded, followed by wrestling on horseback.
Long distance views of smoke rising over houses, described as Béthune, set on fire by the Germans, "these burning houses are proof of their love of destruction". Shells start to fall between the houses and isolated cottages.
35mm | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 01/3(4-15).9 British Red Cross band Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force British Army Canadian Expeditionary Force 31/3(41) 01/3(567).8 Canadian Army Royal Italian Army & Carabinieri & [band] | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Ministry of Information | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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