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Item. The photograph is likely to be an enlarged still of the film "General Allenby's Entry into Jerusalem". The photograph captures the proclamation of martial law declared by General Allenby after his entry in Jerusalem. In the picture, standing with Allenby at the steps of the Tower of David, or the Citadel, near the Jaffa Gate, a guard of honor of English, Welsh, Scottish, Indian, Australian, and New Zealand troops. The ceremony was attended also by other international representatives such as Brigadier-General W.M. Borton, Lt.-Col. P. de Piepape and Lt.-Col. F. D'Agostino (heads of the French and Italian contingents), Lt.-Col. Lord Dalmeny, Lt.-Col. A.P. Wavell, the French High Commissioner, M. Picot, Louis Matignon, Major T.E. Lawrence, Major General L.J. Bols, Lt.-General Sir P. Chetwode and Brigadier-General G.P. Dawnay. After having dismounted and entered the city on foot as a sign of respect, the General, issued this famous proclamation, worded exactly as transmitted by the Government and read to the population in Arabic, Hebrew, English, French, Italian, Greek, and Russian. from. This act was conceived in deliberate contrast to the perceived arrogance of the Kaiser's entry into Jerusalem on horseback in 1898. This historical moment was part of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign during WWI. Copyright Not Evaluated Title and date devised by Library staff. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.25166 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i15639812 BIB-ID: 1011230 McKernan, L. "The Supreme moment of the War: General Allenby's entry into Jerusalem" (Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television; 1993, vol.13, no.2, pp.169-180) The film "General Allenby's Entry into Jerusalem" was produced by the War Office Cinema Committee in 1918 and is held at the Imperial War Museum (ID: IWM 13) 1st Viscount Allenby Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman 1861-1936 World War, 1914-1918 Arab countries Photographs Jerusalem Photographs aacr rda QAFCL 1214 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.5 using MARC21slim2MODS3-5.xsl (Revision 1.111 2016/3/24) eng