WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 354-1 (fragment) [Main]


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  • Other title(s): PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 354-1 (fragment) [alternative]
  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 2 mins
  • Description: The camera, on board a boat, travels down the river, being passed by a light launch. On a camouflaged raft moored at the side of the river are two British 4.7-inch guns. Further down is a moored barge with a 6-inch BLC siege gun. The light and reflections from the water make it difficult to see details.British soldiers watch while a column of refugees with carts moves up a dirt road into a wood. Other refugees halt their wagons in Béthune (?) while a column of British troops passes up the road in the other direction, including a limbered 60-pounder gun.
    I. Newsreel item on British floating guns on the Piave River, Italian Front, May 1918.II. Newsreel item on British troops watching refugees, probably Béthune, Western Front, 9th-10th April 1918.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Royal Artillery, Royal Garrison Artillery / British Army / ships, British naval - light forces: river launch / weapons, British - gun: 4.7-inch / defences, British - passive: camouflage / weapons, British - gun: 6-inch BLC siege gun / weapons, British - gun: 60-pounder / refugees, French - flight / 01/3(45).8 / 01/3(4-15).83 / Italy & Piave (River) / Béthune, Pas-de-Calais, France / half-light / Summer
  • 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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