|
Date: |
|
Description: | Incoherent, jumbled collection of short pieces of Australian and British troops in France 1916-1918.
Most of the film consists of unidentifiable stockshots of guns, troops, wounded and shell-dumps found in other films. Identifiable and original material is as follows. Reel 1: men of the Australian 1st and 2nd Divisions in the Somme area in 1916; Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig and General Sir William Birdwood reviewing Australian troops at Ebblinghem on 29 August 1917; mailbags being unloaded from a ship in a French port; an 8-inch howitzer of 1st Australian Siege Battery in action near Ypres on 12 September 1917. Reel 2: marching troops and guns of 33rd Division (note the divisional sign on limbers) and possibly 49th (West Riding) Division (note the divisional sign on limbers again).
35mm | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 01/3(4-15) Australian Imperial Force Haig Siege Battery 1 Div 33 2nd Division Australian Army British Army Douglas Div 49 William Riddell 1st Division Birdwood | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
|
|