WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 285-1 (fragment) [Main]

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Year: 1917
Runtime: 2 mins
Description: The men are trying out caterpillar tractors, which pull 75mm M16 field guns, complete with limbers on which men are riding, over rough ground out in the desert.
I. Newsreel item on 'C' Battery, US 5th Field Artillery, in training at El Paso, Texas, January 1917.II. Newsreel item on children tobogganing down a snow-covered slope in a park in north London, February 1917.
Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / United States Army & Field Artillery Regt 5, C Bty / training, United States military - weapons: artillery / weapons, United States - gun: 75mm M16 field gun / transport, United States military - prime mover / recreation, British civilian - casual: tobogganing / 31/3(41) / El Paso, Texas, United States of America / North London, England, UK / desert / Children / Children and war / snow / Winter
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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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