SEPTEMBER OFFENSIVE 7 [Main]


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  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 4 mins
  • Description: A pan over a ruined village, Villers Bretonneux (?) filmed from a church tower, showing British troops and transport moving in the streets below. Two soldiers look out through the crenellations of the tower, filmed from behind and caught in silhouette against the sky. The same damage from ground level; two Highlanders, possibly of 51st (Highland) Division, wave at the camera. French soldiers clear debris from the railway tracks.Mechanics and other ranks, mostly still wearing RFC uniform and badges, march out on parade led by their band and form a hollow square round an FE2d night bomber. The base chaplain uses the observer's front cockpit of this pusher aircraft as his pulpit to deliver a sermon, after which the band plays a hymn and marches away.
    I. Unedited film in the wake of the British forces in the Advance to Victory, possibly Villers Bretonneux, Western Front, September 1918.II. A religious service at No 2 Aeroplane Supply Depot RAF, France, 1st September 1918.III. British wagons passing over a bridge, temporarily repaired by the Royal Engineers, across the Somme River, Monchy-Lagache, Western Front, probably 1st September 1918.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Div 51 / French Army / Royal Air Force, Aeroplane Supply Depot 2 / British Army, Royal Engineers / destruction, French military - area: artillery bombardment / religion, Christianity - military, British / aircraft, British - combat: Royal Aircraft Establishment FE2d / engineering, military, British / 01/3(4-15).9 / 01/3(4-15).9 / 01/3(4-15).9 (?) / Villers-Bretonneux, Somme, France / Number 2 Aeroplane Supply Depot RAF, France / Somme (River), France / camera / World War, 1914-1918 -- Motion pictures and the war / half-light
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Topical Film Company
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound

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