Filmed by Captain Norman Laugesen (Divisional Signals) while serving with the 2nd NZ Division in the North African campaign during the Second World War.
NZ officer [Lieutenant] emerges from tent and gets into truck, gives the thumbs up. Ruins. Sign for “Grand Mosque. Long shots of city. Cannon balls at the foot of a wall.
NZ Soldiers present arms outside a major building. Unidentifiable NZ officer on balcony. Arrival of a [Syrian politician].
Woman at loom. Transporting truck on barge across river. Turkish soldier - all smiles with a bottle of beer. More Turkish military. Turkish countryside. Mountains. Sign for the village Selkin. Memorial for the last engagement between Allied and Turkish troops in the First World War.