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Description: | I. Field Marshal Haig's farewell to the official war correspondents on the Hohenzollern Bridge, Cologne, 16th December 1918.
II. The arrival of President Poincaré in Lille, 21st October 1918.
Two cars, led by Haig's escort troop of 17th Lancers, pull up on the bridge in the mist. Haig gets out of the first car along with General Sir Herbert Plumer, commanding the Army of Occupation. Haig's Chief of Staff, Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Lawrence, gets out from the second car. Colonel Neville Lytton, commanding the GHQ Press Section, presents each of the twenty-five correspondents, British and foreign, and Haig gives each of them a small Union Jack like his car pennant. Haig then drives away with his lancer escort.
Crowds wait in the streets for the President. General Sir William Birdwood, commanding Fifth Army, waits with an escort for the car carrying Poincaré to arrive. The President arrives and inspects the guard. The inhabitants of Lille cheer his car as it drives through the streets and the main square.
35mm | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Philip Armand Hamilton 01/3(4-15).9 Bulwer-Lytton Lancers Haig 17 GHQ Press Section Herbert Charles Onslow Censorship and Press Branch Army 5 Armistice & 16/12/1918 Neville Stephen Herbert Alexander Raymond N L British Army Douglas William Riddell Lawrence First World War Gibbs Poincaré Plumer mist Birdwood | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Ministry of Information | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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