ANNALES DE LA GUERRE 20 [Main]


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  • Year: 1917
  • Runtime: 7 mins
  • Description: The Governor, who is ex-Minister of War, has an escort of lancers. The Sultan's Guard of zouaves, guns and lancers marches past, led by its French officers.The recently-captured Hurtebise plateau in the Marne area. It is badly churned-up, but soldiers are moving about quite openly. At the entrance to a heavily sandbagged dugout an orderly gives a message to his sector commandant. Soldiers at the entrance to, and later inside, the Cave of the Dragon, used as a shelter. French troops stand guard over a crashed Albatros CII in the Vosges region. The aircraft is in perfect condition from the tail to the gunner's cockpit, but the nose has been completely crushed. In the Marne area French troops watch as the wreck of a crashed German Aviatik CII burns.Albert Thomas waits at Harlan station with General Berthelot, head of the French military mission, and with the President of the Council. King Carol arrives by train with his son Prince Carol, and performs the welcoming ceremony of bread and salt for Thomas. Together they watch a demonstration of military manoeuvres. The King gives Berthelot the order of Michel the Brave, following which the Rumanian soldiers with their guns pass in review.
    I. French newsreel item showing General Lyautey, Governor of Morocco, visiting the Sultan's palace at Rabat, 14th July 1917.II. French newsreel items of the Marne and Alsace regions of the Western Front, July 1917.III. French newsreel item on the visit of M Albert Thomas, Minister of Munitions, to Rumania, July 1917.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / Lyautey, Louis-Hubert / Thomas, Albert / Berthelot, Henri-Mathias / Carol II, King of Romania / Carol, Prince of Romania / French Army / Royal Moroccan Army & Sultan's Guard / French Army / French Army / Romanian Army / delegations, French Imperial - military / ceremonies, French - event-related: Bastille Day / defences, French - emplacement / aircraft, German - combat: Albatros CIII & [captured] & [damaged] / aircraft, German - combat: Aviatik CII & [captured] & [wrecked] / delegations, French international - political / training, Rumanian military / ceremonies, Rumanian - customary: bread and salt / ceremonies, Rumanian - event-related: investiture / buildings, Rumanian - commercial: railway station / 31/3(64) / 01/3(4-15).7 / 31/3(498) / Morocco & Rabat / Hurtebise Plateau, Marne, France / Cave of the Dragon, Marne, France / Alsace, France / Rumania & Harlan (?) / desert
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Section Cinématographique de l'Armée Française
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound
  • Language: fr

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