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Description: | Fragmentary film of Canadian troops on the Western Front, probably during the Battle of Arras, April 1917.
Sunrise over a battlefield. Canadians at a front-line machine gun post open fire. Canadian wounded are brought through to the rear areas of a battle, with German prisoners helping as stretcher-bearers. At a first aid post the stretchers are loaded into a motor ambulance. German prisoners have been led back to a rear-area village, where Canadian soldiers pick up their packs and go back up the line. German prisoners, one in body-armour, sit by a tent and shake lice out of their clothing. Portrait shots of German prisoners showing various degrees of nervousness and fatigue. In a quarry in the rear troops eat and drink; a chaplain offers drinks to tired and wounded men. German and Canadian stretcher-bearers, working together, share drinks and biscuits. In a trench one party of soldiers relieves another (one man deliberately shakes hands with another). A final view of a laughing soldier.
35mm | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 01/3(4-15) half-light Canadian Expeditionary Force Canadian Army 01/3(4-15).63 (?) | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Canadian War Records Office | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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