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Description: | I. Newsreel item on British floating guns on the Piave River, Italian Front, May 1918.
II. Newsreel item on British troops watching refugees, probably Béthune, Western Front, 9th-10th April 1918.
The camera, on board a boat, travels down the river, being passed by a light launch. On a camouflaged raft moored at the side of the river are two British 4.7-inch guns. Further down is a moored barge with a 6-inch BLC siege gun. The light and reflections from the water make it difficult to see details.
British soldiers watch while a column of refugees with carts moves up a dirt road into a wood. Other refugees halt their wagons in Béthune (?) while a column of British troops passes up the road in the other direction, including a limbered 60-pounder gun.
35mm | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Garrison Artillery half-light Royal Artillery British Army Summer 01/3(45).8 01/3(4-15).83 | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Ministry of Information | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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