SONS OF OUR EMPIRE EPISODE 5 : Attacking hard [Main]


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  • Other title(s): ATTACKING HARD [alternative]
  • Year: 1917
  • Runtime: 32 mins
  • Description: (Reel 9) A bombardment in progress. Mk I tanks move up. Fatigue parties (described as "doctors") move forwards. Prisoners are brought in and the captured area mopped up. The German Crown Prince's headquarters at Péronne shows shell damage. A Guards Division dressing station. The formal search of prisoners by Australians, "the Intelligence officer returns an Iron Cross to a prisoner". The troops return to their rest camps. A chaplain takes a message from a wounded man on a stretcher. Tanks and soldiers return. (Reel 10) The remains of Trones Wood and the unidentifiable rubble of villages. German dead in their trenches. A ditched Mk I tank. "Australians", "London Irish" and "Civil Service Rifles" (of 56th Division) return. An open air funeral service, "the inevitable price of victory". Mk I tanks of 'D' Company H/MGC being serviced and maintained. Aircraft return from their observation flights. An observation kite balloon lands. Men of 35th (Bantam) Division and the New Zealand Division rest. A final shot of Prime Minister Lloyd George on a balcony with H Samuel Homer Stacy, with a policy speech: "our sword was not lightly drawn, and will never be sheathed until our terms - Restitution, Reparation and Guarantees - are fully assured".
    The wounded, prisoners and captured ground from the British Somme offensive, Western Front, autumn 1916.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / Lloyd George, David / Stacy, H Samuel Homer / British Army, Div, Guards / British Army, London Regiment, Bn 1/18 / British Army, London Regiment, Bn 15 / Australian Army, Australian Imperial Force / British Army, Machine Gun Corps, Heavy Branch / British Army, Royal Tank Corps / British Army, Div 35 / New Zealand Military Forces, New Zealand Div / destruction, French military - area: artillery bombardment / defences, German - emplacement: trenches & [captured] / armour, British - tank: Tank Mark I Male / armour, British - tank: Tank Mark I Female / weapons, British - gun: 18-pounder field gun / weapons, British - gun: 4.5-inch howitzer (?) & [Australian] / weapons, German - gun: 77mm field gun & [captured] & [wrecked] / weapons, British - gun: 9.2-inch howitzer / aircraft, British - balloon: observation kite balloon / buildings, German - military: headquarters (Crown Prince) & [captured] / prisoners of war, German - movement / prisoners of war, German - reception / arts, German - fine arts: medal (Iron Cross) / intelligence, military, Australian - interrogation / medical, British military - emergency / religion, Christianity - military, British / operations, British military - return / casualties, British dead [disposal] / casualties, German dead - battlefield / operations, British military - maintenance: tanks / politics, British - institutional: war aims / combat, British - artillery bombardment / propaganda, British - inspirational / 01/3(4-15).57 / 31/3(41) / Péronne, Somme, France / Trones Wood, Somme, France / Courcelette, Somme, France / London, England, UK
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Topical Film Company
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound