ANNALES DE LA GUERRE 35 [Main]


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  • Year: 1917
  • Runtime: 10 mins
  • Description: The men are French I Corps and British II Corps to the south. A mixed posed group of British and French soldiers talk with one another. British officers watch a French 75mm field gun crew opening fire from a gun pit. A British relief party passes another 75mm piece. British convoys travel on the roads, which are quite muddy. These include 3-ton lorries, marching soldiers, Holt tractors pulling 9.2-inch howitzers, limbers pulling 6-inch howitzers, motor ambulances, a London bus, and horse-drawn GS wagons. French horse-drawn transport passes the other way. Other roads show more marching columns of troops and London buses used to carry them.Watched by delegations from all the regiments which fought in the offensive, General Pétain decorates the standards of the regiments which distinguished themselves most. The ceremony is held in open fields in the pouring rain. General Maistre, commanding Sixth Army which made the attack, is decorated by Pétain as a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. The regiments march past in salute, and display their standards.
    I. French newsreel item showing civilians, mainly women, filing past the graves at the Allied cemetery of Zeitenlick on All Saints' Day. Salonika Front, 1st November 1917.II. French newsreel item showing M Métin, Mayor of Evian, and his council members welcoming refugees from occupied areas who are to be resettled nearby. France, November 1917.III. French newsreel item showing that the port of Dunkirk with its Jean Bart Square is undamaged, and cargo ships are unloading there, despite German air raids. France, November 1917.IV. French newsreel item showing fraternisation between British and French soldiers at the junction of their lines in the Ypres area, November 1917.V. French newsreel item of the aftermath of the Chemin des Dames offensive from the River Aisne. France, November 1917.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / Metin (M) / Evian, Mayor of / Petain, Philippe / Maistre, Paul / British Army, Army 2, Corps 2 / French Army, Army 1 & Corps 1 / French Army, Army 6 / ceremonies, French - event-related: All Saints' Day / ceremonies, Greek - event-related: All Saints' Day / casualties, French graves - formal / casualties, Greek graves - formal / casualties, Allied graves - formal / refugees, French - settlement / society, French - charity / supplies, French, movement [RA] - misc / society, French military - friendship / society, British military - friendship / combat, French - artillery bombardment / weapons, French - gun: 75mm field gun / operations, British military - movement: road / supplies, British, movement [RA] - misc / operations, British military - movement: march / transport, British military - prime mover: Holt tractor / weapons, British - gun: 9.2-inch howitzer / weapons, British - gun: 6-inch 26cwt howitzer / transport, British military - bus / transport, British military - animal / transport, French military - animal / ceremonies, French - event-related: investiture / First World War, Salonika Front & 1/11/1917 / 31/3(44) / 31/3(44) / 01/3(4-15).74 / 01/3(4-15).7 / Greece & Salonika area, Macedonia / Evian-les-Bains, Haut-Savoie, France / Jean Bart Square, Dunkirk, Nord, France / Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium / France / World War, 1914-1918 -- France / mud / rain
  • 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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