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Description: | I. Portuguese language version of a German newsreel showing the Swiss Commander-in-Chief, General Wille, talking with officers and civilians at a review of his own troops in Switzerland, autumn 1915.
II. Portuguese language version of a German newsreel of their own troops in occupied Belgium and on the Western Front, autumn 1915.
Soldiers just out of the front lines laugh, joke and wrestle together while resting at a farm. A marching column in full kit leaves its barracks for the trenches. A boiler-distiller for providing fresh water is demonstrated. A steamroller helps local people to repair a road, possibly near Brussels. Officers fraternise with the local people at the chteau where they have been billeted. A German orderly tends and decorates the graves of a French soldier. Two soldiers exhibit a fragment of a British 15-inch shell which fell one metre from the local church. Soldiers in the rear areas use sewing machines for making sandbags. Soldiers go forward in the front lines to occupy a mine crater blown by the British. Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria talks to soldiers close to the front lines. A guard in a front line trench sees danger through a trench periscope and calls out the troops who man the fire-step. A training exercise for an attack supported by grenades.
35mm | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | German Occupied Belgium & 9/1915 = 10/1915 Rupprecht Swiss Army Ulrich German Army Wille 01/3(4-15).4 German Occupied France & 9/1915 = 10/1915 First World War Crown Prince of Bavaria | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Messter Film | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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