SEPTEMBER OFFENSIVE 3 [Main]

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Year: 1918
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Runtime: 7 mins
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Description: (Reel 1) Stretcher-bearers with wounded, some German, arrive at an advanced dressing station. (Some of the bearers are German prisoners with Red Cross armbands.) Described as Achiet-le-Grand but possibly 65th Field Ambulance, 21st Division, near Epéhy on 18th September. At the entrance to a bell tent a British doctor removes the bandage from a German with a head wound, wiping the blood away as he does so. A group of British troops sit wearing light overalls with their regimental caps. They are described as men who have been gassed and have changed out of their gas-laden clothes, but show no signs of distress. (Reel 2) A marching column behind the lines with ammunition limbers going the other way, probably 40th Division (note formation sign). A house on fire with trees nearby. A destroyed village with British GS wagons and troops moving through. At another location, possibly Bray-sur-Somme, houses are damaged on both sides of a wide main street. A small leave-boat with camouflage markings, its deck crowded with cheering British and Dominion troops, leaves the quay for England.
Unedited film of British troops in the Advance to Victory, Western Front, September 1918.
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Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps, Field Ambulance 65 / British Army, Div 40 / casualties, British wounded - battlefield / casualties, German wounded - battlefield / medical, British military - emergency: [+] / casualties, British wounded - battlefield: [gas] / operations, British military - movement: march / destruction, French: fire / destruction, French military - area: artillery bombardment / operations, British military - movement: road / ships, British auxiliary - transport: leave boat / recreation, British military - leave / 01/3(4-15).9 / Achiet-le-Grand, Pas-de-Calais, France / Épéhy, Somme, France / Bray-sur-Somme, Somme, France
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Provider: Imperial War Museums
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Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
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Production company: Topical Film Company
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Colour: Black & White
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Sound: Without sound
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