REEL 1 Recollections of period as medical officer with Royal Army Medical Corps in Mesopotamia, Iraq, 1920-1921: military service during First World War; posting to Iraq from India, 1920; formation of Samcol at Nasiriyah; protection of archaeologists; objectives of column; conditions during advance; burning village as reprisal for massacre of gunboat, Greenfly's crew; capture of Samawah; casualties to column; posting to field ambulance unit, 1921; story of Arab horse; attending to General Edmund Ironside on voyage to GB.
REEL 2 Continues: General Edmund Ironside's story of rescuing Winston Churchill from captivity during Boer War; posting to Ireland. Recollections of period as medical officer with Iraq Levies in Iraq, 1922-1924: posting to 3rd Bn Iraq Levies; contacts and relations with civilians; impressions of Rowanduz Gorge; relations between Kurds and Assyrians; description of camp at Diana; nature of medical complaints; opinion of Assyrian levies; troops' equipment; opinion of quality of Assyrian troops.
REEL 3 Continues: character of tour. Aspects of period as officer with Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt and Palestine, 1945-1948: return to Middle East as commander, 13th British General Hospital at Ataka, Egypt, 1945; work rehabilitating prisoners of war and former internees; taking command of School of Hygiene and Malariology in Gaza, Palestine.
Source: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80004451