GERMAN OFFENSIVE 5 [Main]


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  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 5 mins
  • Description: A very brief scene of British soldiers and French civilians walking along a street, possibly Arras. A Mk IV Female tank, with two soldiers riding on it, moving away across a field. A Highland battalion, probably 1/14th (London Scottish) Battalion, the London Regiment, digging a reserve trench in an open field. Two 13-pounder anti-aircraft guns on rail mountings firing. A marching column in shrapnel helmets and battle order, probably 56th (1st London) Division retiring out of the line at Durham Camp, Mont-St-Eloi, with a transport column of lorries passing the other way. A rear view of a 6-inch Mk VII howitzer being fired under scrim netting. A column of lorries and two buses carrying troops down a road.
    British troops in the Arras area, behind the lines, Western Front, 30 March 1918.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Div 56 / British Army, London Regiment, Bn 1/14 / British Army, Tank Corps / armour, British - tank: Tank Mark IV Female / weapons, British - gun [AA]: 13-pounder (rail mountings) / weapons, British - gun: 6-inch Mark VII / combat, British - anti-aircraft / operations, British military - movement: road / transport, British military - bus / transport, British military - truck / 01/3(4-15).81 / Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France / Mont Saint Eloi, West Flanders, Belgium
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Topical Film Company
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound