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Description: | I. Volunteers in training.
II. Flag day for the British Red Cross.
III. Rugby match in aid of Canadian prisoners of war.
IV. Cavalry in Macedonia. An improvised AA mounting for a Vickers machine gun.
I. 'VOLUNTEERS IN TRAINING. Men of the St. Pancras Volunteers engaged on trench digging, "Somewhere in Essex."'. A sunny day. Men in civilian dress prepare the ground. They are engaged not upon digging a trench of the conventional sort but in the construction of an earthwork made of turf. The turf layers - most of whom are uniformed, in contrast to the turf cutters - appear quite expert. 'BUILDING EARTHWORKS. Volunteers spend their Sunday in training. Some of the men building a parapet'. Turf sods are cut out and laid in low walls which are neatly shaped with machetes - at the end of the sequence appears a volunteer whose age and girth would surely preclude active service unless Essex was invaded.
II. '"OUR DAY". Indian Princesses and wounded soldiers selling flags and "Zepp" (sic) souvenirs on behalf of the British Red Cross Society'. A soldier with tray sells paper flag badges in the street. An 'Indian princess' does likewise. LS of building decorated with Allied flags and 'Our Day' posters.
III. 'CANADIANS V PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The Rugby football match in aid of the "Canadian Prisoners of War" results in a win for the Public Schools by eight points to nil'. MS sequence showing a rugby match in progress - no score during recorded play.
IV. 'CAVALRY IN MACEDONIA. Cavalry passing through a mountain pass on their way to the Bulgarian frontier. An improvised anti-aircraft gun fixed on the wheel of a gun limber, taken in action'. Men lead horses up a low bank from a shallow stream where the animals have presumably been watered. Tethered in lines in the camp, the animals are groomed - a group of local peasants stand in left foreground doing nothing in Balkan fashion. MS of a Vickers machine gun clamped to the wheel of an overturned gun limber, the rotation of the wheel giving the gun some traverse - one man fires and another eases the feed of the belt.
35mm | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | British Red Cross Australian Army Volunteers British Army St Pancras cavalry | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | War Office | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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