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Description: | I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on British troops near Amiens, Western Front, late March or early April 1918.
II. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on J R Clynes MP opening a public food kitchen at Stoke Newington, April 1918.
III. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on mineworkers being recruited for the Army in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, April 1918.
IV. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on British and French troops in the Amiens area, Western Front, late March or early April 1918.
An overturned 18-pounder field gun with the dead bodies of its horses and crew beside it. Soldiers, including a Lewis gunner in the foreground, holding a slit trench. Cavalry officers (dismounted) hold an open air briefing while German prisoners rest nearby.
The film shows a crowd of cheering children. Clynes arrives and performs the opening ceremony. The children, rather camera-shy, hold jugs of soup. A final shot of one child in close-up eating an apple.
The men pose with the recruiting sergeants. They are the last conscripts from the reserved occupations such as mining. They march through the town streets. Small children march in step as they go, and a woman rushes out to kiss her husband goodbye.
British troops, some resting, hold a slit trench. Other soldiers rest, eating from cans. British and French soldiers, looking tired and strained, wait in a village. Two of the Frenchmen pick up their rifles and leave.
35mm | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | J R French Army children [+] British Army 31/3(41) 01/3(4-15).92 [1918 Somme 2] Ministry of Food Clynes | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Ministry of Information | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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