AUGUST OFFENSIVE 7 [Main]


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  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 12 mins
  • Description: A column of RFA limbers reloads from a dump of 18-pounder shells beside a track before moving forward (possibly near Harlincourt ?). A group of soldiers, possibly Royal Scots Fusiliers, walks in loose order towards the camera through the dust of a track. Transport and RFA limbers move past Achiet-le-Grand station, which has two captured German 150mm howitzers outside it. Near Sapignies an officer directs the fire of two 6-inch Mark VII guns, and the map is re-set for indirect fire. The two guns are each hooked up to their two-wheel trail limbers and towed to a new position by Holt tractors. British troops dig in the remains of a wood, clearing the trees, not far from Bailleul. The main square at Bailleul consists only of an open space surrounded by rubble. Meteren, just south of Ypres, is in a similar condition. Near Merville, a girder bridge has been blown up and has collapsed into the cutting below it.
    British rough material of the Battle of Amiens and the Advance to the Hindenburg Line, Western Front, August 1918.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Royal Artillery, Royal Field Artillery / British Army, Scots Fusiliers, Royal / British Army, Royal Artillery, Royal Garrison Artillery / supplies, British, storage [RA] - munitions / supplies, British, movement [RA] - munitions / transport, British military - animal / weapons, German - gun: 150mm howitzer & [captured] / weapons, British - gun: 6-inch Mark VII / equipment, British military - fire control: artillery targetting map / transport, British military - prime mover: Holt tractor / destruction, French military - area: artillery bombardment / buildings, French - commercial: railway station / 01/3(4-15).92 [1918 Amiens] / 01/3(4-15).94 / Achiet-le-Grand, Pas-de-Calais, France / Sapignies, Pas-de-Calais, France / Bailleul, Somme, France / Meteren, West Flanders, Belgium / Merville, Nord, France
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Topical Film Company
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound