John Bryden Wells: home movie taken while serving with the 2/4th Battalion AIF in the Middle East

Opening scene 2nd Lieutenant John Bryden Wells. Nile River scenes. Boulevarde, cars and horse drawn vehicles. Nile showing Egyptian boats [feluccas]. El Montaza Royal Gardens Alexandria. Alexandria street scenes and monument. Mounted policemen. Scenes at the zoo. Soldier in slouch hat posing for the camera. Australians riding in a horse and buggy. Elaborate horse-drawn hearse. Interior scene showing soldiers and nurses. Bazaar showing craftsmen at work. Street scenes, Swimming pool showing men and women (nurses?). Tennis match showing men and nurses. Officer filming with 8mm cine camera. Giza showing pyramids Moving shots from a vehicle showing town and park. Panning shot of the Gezira Sporting Club, Cairo. A cricket match. Men and women relaxing by the pool, swimming drinking beer. Club interior showing barman and customers. Camp scenes showing soldiers being innoculated. More camp scenes, showing soldiers digging trenches or weapons pits and having a brew of tea. Officers in dress uniform leaving a building possibly the Officers' Mess. Officers group photograph being taken in front of the mess building. A long shot of a fire in the camp. Service wedding between NX295 Captain Ethne Doris Swanson 2/1 Australian General Hospital (2/1 AGH) and NX7967 Lieutenant Henry Gustaf Sundstrom. Officers and nursing sisters outside the 2/1 AGH Sisters Mess during the wedding reception. The bride now in civilian dress and groom in uniform leaving by motor car. More general camp scenes. Long shot of an explosion?. Arabs with Australians. Bedouin women and children. Australian under a eucalyptus tree. More camp scenes showing tents and men walking around the camp. Unidentified war cemetery. Two men fencing with foils (at one point pretending to run someone through with the foil). Vickers machine gun practice. Assault through barbed wire demonstration. A Renault FT light tank. Silhouette of soldiers practice rifle shoot or drill. At sea, scenes from troop ship. Men relaxing on deck. Kittens. Cat mascot. Soldiers in greatcoats, possibly after return to Australia. Camp scenes showing soldier hanging up washing. Various scenes of countryside. Soldiers skiing.