CANADIANS EAST OF ARRAS [Main]


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  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 8 mins
  • Description: Not far from the Droucourt-Quéant Switch Line, tanks of 11th Battalion make their way up a gradient in the fog. The leading Mark V Male tank is marked 'Kim' and has a left-handed swastika on its nose (after Kipling). It is followed by another Male tank, and a Female 'Kitty'. Horses of the Canadian Corps unsaddled in a shallow depression. Canadian ASC men are breaking in one horse to a harness for pulling a cart. A patrol of Canadian Light Horse moves forward. Back at the horse-lines, the horses are being groomed, and the horse being broken in has been hobbled with a form of running martingale. A posed shot of the horse with his head cradled by one of the drivers. Finally a village, mostly reduced to rubble. Shown clearly on a wall is "O U QEEANT" (sic), presumably the village of Quéant.
    Unedited film of 11th Battalion, Tank Corps, and of horse-breaking by men of the Canadian Corps, in rear areas of the battlefield during the Breaking of the Hindenburg Line, Western Front, September 1918.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Tank Corps, 11th Battalion / Canadian Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Army Service Corps / Canadian Army, Canadian Light Horse / armour, British - tank: Tank Mark V Male / armour, British - tank: Tank Mark V Female / animals, mammals: horse / training, Canadian military - specialist: equestrian / destruction, French military - area: artillery bombardment / 01/3(4-15).94 / Quéant, Pas-de-Calais, France / fog
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound