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Description: | Fragmentary film of Canadian troops on the Western Front, probably during the Battle of Arras, April 1917.
The Duke of Connaught is taken on a conducted tour over an old part of a battlefield (this visit took place on 17 March). Canadians in a rear position relax and smoke in dugouts. A tented rest camp. A long-range view of houses being shelled. More shellfire, possibly on a training range. Soldiers prepare to take heavy loads of ammunition and equipment on their backs forward from the rear areas through the trenches. Pan over an old battlefield with half-destroyed buildings. A tented camp with Canadian gunners exercising their horses. Men of the Tank Corps do maintenance work on their Mark IV tanks; one man draws an elaborate Maple Leaf on the nose of his tank.
35mm | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 01/3(4-15) Tank Corps British Army Canadian Expeditionary Force Canadian Army 01/3(4-15).63 (?) Connaught [George] (HRH Duke of) | 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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