GERMAN OFFENSIVE 12 [Main]
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Year: 1918
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Runtime: 7 mins
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Description: A Scottish cyclist battalion on a wooded road. A French 75mm field gun limbered up but stuck in a ditch, with French and British troops trying to free it, probably Arras area. A battalion on the march down a road - possibly not British. Shell damage to a street being inspected by British and French troops, probably Amiens. The shell damage to Amiens Cathedral, both inside and outside. A battalion of the Suffolk Regiment resting in a square in the city. A French Infantry band carrying their instruments on the march.
British forces in the Amiens area, and possibly further north, Western Front, in the last week of April 1918.
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Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Suffolk Regiment / British Army, cyclists / French Army / weapons, French - gun: 75mm field gun / buildings, French - religious: cathedral / equipment, French - personal: musical instruments / 01/3(4-15).81 / 01/3(4-15).83 / Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France / Amiens, Somme, France / mud
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Provider: Imperial War Museums
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Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
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Production company: Topical Film Company
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Colour: Black & White
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Sound: Without sound
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