SCENES IN CAPTURED VILLAGES ON THE CAMBRAI FRONT [Main]


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  • Jahr: 1918
  • Dauer: 6 mins
  • Beschreibung: Ambulances in the main square at Marcoing shortly after its capture, 20 November. There is no great damage to the square apart from broken windows, a hall with the sign "Justice de Paix" over it and a badly damaged church. Unsaddled horses of CCXXXV Brigade RFA drinking from a pool in the centre of Flesquières. Soldiers of 51st (Highland) Division, probably Gordon Highlanders, with a captured German 210mm mortar. Royal Artillery draught horses, paddocked by a damaged building in Havrincourt, being fed. A possibly unrelated scene ends the film: a pioneer battalion gathers up picks, shovels and rifles before marching off in loose order, and a Royal Horse Artillery troop poses limbered up for the camera.
    The villages of Marcoing, Flesquières and Havrincourt, Cambrai area, Western Front, 20-24 November 1917.
  • Schlüsselwörter: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Div 47 / British Army, Royal Artillery, RFA & Bde 235 / British Army, Div 51 / British Army, Gordon Highlanders / British Army, Royal Artillery, Royal Horse Artillery / weapons, British - gun: 13-pounder field gun / weapons, German - mortar: 210mm & [captured] / animals, mammals: horse / buildings, French - institutional: town hall & [damaged] / 01/3(4-15).76 / Marcoing, Nord, France / Flesquières, Nord, France / Havrincourt, Pas-de-Calais, France
  • Anbieter: Imperial War Museums
  • Rechte: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Produktionsfirma: Topical Film Company
  • Farbe: Black & White
  • Ton: Without sound