GERMAN OFFENSIVE 3 [Main]
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Jaar: 1918
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Speelduur: 10 mins
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Beschrijving: Royal Engineers start to dig a trench in open country. Men of the Machine Gun Corps (?) rest by the roadside. More soldiers dig trenches in the open. A column of horsemen, possibly 1st Cavalry Division, on patrol quite close to the front, pass others waiting dismounted in a leafless wood. A soldier asleep in a foxhole while others nearby rest and eat (they have mud covers on their rifles - probably a safe area). Infantry lining a scrape trench are approached by a group of prisoners (?) while in the background horsemen gallop past. Soldiers holding a more substantial trench. A group of Cavalry officers holds an open air briefing while German prisoners rest nearby. A Cavalryman escorts three prisoners who are on foot. More Cavalry trot along a road. At a dressing station some wounded, including two French soldiers, are given tea (?). A smashed 18-pounder with its limber overturned on the roadside and the dead bodies of its crew beside it. In a railway siding two French and one British soldier inspect a burnt out ammunition train hit by a German bomb. Refugees from Amiens, some quite smartly dressed, wheeling handcarts and loading furniture onto a lorry.
British troops, predominantly Cavalry, Amiens area, Western Front, late March or early April 1918.
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Trefwoorden: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Royal Engineers / British Army, Machine Gun Corps / British Army, Div, Cavalry, 1 (?) / French Army / weapons, British - gun: 18-pounder field gun & [wrecked] / animals, mammals: horse & [casualties] / casualties, British dead - battlefield / medical, British military - emergency / society, British military - sustenance / casualties, French wounded - battlefield / transport, British military - rail: ammunition train & [wrecked] / refugees, French - flight / engineering, military, British: trenches / 01/3(4-15).81 / Somme, France
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Provider: Imperial War Museums
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Rechten: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
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Productiemaatschappij: Topical Film Company
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Kleur: Black & White
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Sound: Without sound
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