WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 365-2 (French version, fragment) [Main]


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  • Andre titler: PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 365-2 (French version, fragment) [alternative]
  • År: 1918
  • Varighed: 3 mins
  • Beskrivelse: At Rouen the King poses for a group photograph with Field Marshal Haig, Marshal Foch and General Pétain. At Third Army headquarters, Frohen-le-Grand, later in the day he decorates three men with the Victoria Cross. They are the Reverend T B Hardy, attached to 8th Battalion, the Lincolnshire Regiment, and Sergeant William Gregg and Corporal William Beesley, both of 13th Battalion, the Rifle Brigade. Gregg and Beesley pose together for a photograph.Leaving Grosvenor House, the site of the Ministry of Food, are Major E A Belcher, the Director of the Fruit and Vegetables Department and S Walton, Assistant Food Controller. The delegates to the conference come down the outside stairs of the building into its gardens. Portrait shots of Belcher and Walton.British soldiers rest beside a house equipped as a YMCA establishment. With them are German prisoners, some of whom are wounded. A soldier gives a German who is lying on a stretcher a cup of tea. The men are all camera-conscious, but the gesture seems nevertheless natural.
    I. French language version of a newsreel item on King George V in France, 9th August 1918.II. French language version of a newsreel item on members of the Ministry of Food at a food conference in London, August 1918.III. French language version of a newsreel item on British treatment of German prisoners, Western Front, August 1918.IV. French language version of a newsreel item on General Rosado, the new Portuguese commander, shown with his staff, then posed by himself, probably in England, August 1918.
  • Nøgleord: EFG1914 / World War I / George V, King / Haig, Douglas / Foch, Ferdinand J M / Petain, Philippe / Hardy, Theodore Bayley / Gregg, William / Beesley, William / Belcher, E A / Walton, S / Rosado (General) / British Army, Army 3 / British Army, Lincolnshire Regiment, 8th Battalion / British Army, Rifle Brigade, 13th Battalion / Ministry of Food / British Army / Young Men's Christian Association / Portuguese Army / delegations, British national - state / delegations, British international - state / ceremonies, British - state: investiture / buildings, British - military: headquarters (Third Army) / religion, Christianity - military, British / buildings, British - institutional: Ministry of Food / prisoners of war, German - custody / casualties, German wounded - battlefield / society, British military - charity: [+] / society, British military - sustenance / 01/3(4-15).9 / 31/3(41) / 01/3(4-15).9 / 31/3(41) / Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France / Frohen-le-Grand, Somme, France / GB, England & London, SW (?) / GB, England (?) / camera / World War, 1914-1918 -- Motion pictures and the war / propaganda, British
  • Udbyder: Imperial War Museums
  • Rettigheder: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Produktionsselskab: Topical Film Company
  • Farve: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound
  • Language: fr

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