the WORLD'S GREATEST STORY - EPISODE 11 [Main]


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  • År: 1919
  • Varighed: 35 mins
  • Beskrivelse: (Reel 21) The episode starts with 'Justice' and captioned newspaper clippings, "British forces in peril... more important than Kut". The decision to send the relief force on 4th April 1919 is reported in the press. Civilian volunteers in columns of fours march out of the Central London Recruiting Office in Whitehall. Soldiers are shown in lifebelts on board a ship. The icebreaker SS Sviatogor breaks through the Kola Gulf. Royal Fusiliers with their pet rabbit mascot. British soldiers boarding a barge to be towed up the ice-free River Dvina. The hospital ship SS Kalza frozen in on the river. Tugs tow barges upstream with M Class monitors as escorts. The British camp at Troitsa showing the church in the distance. More barges move upriver escorted by two Insect Class gunboats. An observation balloon is inflated on a ship's deck. The mascot, a kitten, is fondled by the crew. (Reel 22) A poor view of Major-General Maynard (?) on board a barge. Fairey FIIIC seaplanes at the RAF base on Lake Onega being bombed up. The river gunboat Jolly Roger (later sunk by a mine) with its crew. A helmeted diver preparing to work underwater. A train transporting light barges overland with some damage to the track displayed. An armoured train. Film taken from the train of houses burning along the track. A 4.5-inch howitzer fires from the train. Bolshevik prisoners. General Sir Henry Rawlinson, who arrived on 11th August, confers with Brigadier-General Ironside. The "White Guard", the militia of Archangel, is inspected by Ironside and General de Milar. British troops, including a detachment of Royal Marines, embark on SS Czaritza on 27th September and the ship clears Archangel harbour. A newspaper clipping of King George V's congratulations to Rawlinson. A final view of Archangel from the air.
    A continued thematic treatment of the British contribution to the North Russian Intervention Force, 1918-1919.
  • Nøgleord: EFG1914 / World War I / Ironside, William Edmund / Maynard, Charles C M / Rawlinson, Henry Seymour / Milar, Eugene K de / British Army, North Russian Intervention Force / British Army, Royal Fusiliers1 / Royal Navy, Royal Marines / White Russians / recruitment, British military / ships, British auxiliary - assistance: Sviatogor / animals, mammals: rabbit (mascot) / ships, British auxiliary - assistance: Kalza / ships, British naval - gunship: M Class / buildings, Russian - religious: church / ships, British naval - light forces: Insect Class / aircraft, British - balloon: observation kite balloon / animals, mammals: cat (mascot) / aircraft, British naval - seaplane: Fairey FIIIC / ships, British naval - inland: Jolly Roger / equipment, British naval - personal: diving helmet / transport, Russian civilian - rail: armoured train / destruction, Russian: fire / journalism and record, British - press / weapons, British - gun: 4.5-inch howitzer / combat, British - artillery bombardment / ships, British auxiliary - transport: Czaritza / prisoners of war, Russian - custody: Bolsheviks / Intervention in Russia, British & 1919 / GB, England & London, SW / Russia & North Russia & Kola Gulf / Russia & North Russia & Dvina River / Russia & North Russia & Archangel / Winter
  • Udbyder: Imperial War Museums
  • Rettigheder: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Farve: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound

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