WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 364-2 (French version, fragment) [Main]


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  • Other title(s): PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 364-2 (French version, fragment) [alternative]
  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 5 mins
  • Description: The item opens with a misplaced caption (from a missing item in the issue about Lord Northcliffe), then shows very briefly WAACs outside the church cheering, and press photographers at work.The captions describe the item as "scenes of the great Allied advance in France", as if the material were of the Advance to Victory. A distant view of smoke rising from part of the Bois de Reims, probably the Château Commetreuil near Cumas on fire on 25th July, "unable to resist Allied pressure the enemy burn their billets". 6-inch 26cwt howitzers being loaded and fired. Men "of the London Regiment" in loose marching formation moving over flat terrain. Cavalry in column of twos trotting up a road. A field battery of Italian 8th Division firing its 75mm field guns in the Bois de Reims. German dead lying in the wood on 25th July, "Allied losses were comparatively small". British, French and Italian wounded talk together beside a dressing station on the outskirts of the wood. A large group of German prisoners is marched off to the rear areas, where they have their papers and belongings checked. Men of 1/5th Battalion, the Devonshire Regiment resting in the wood. Men of 6th Battalion, the Black Watch, collecting their packs on 24th July.
    I. French language version of a newsreel item on the wedding of a WAAC member in London, August 1918.II. French language version of a newsreel item mainly on the Battle of Tardenois, July 1918.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps1 / British Army, London Regiment / British Army, cavalry / Royal Italian Army & Div 8 / French Army / British Army, Div 62 / British Army, Devonshire Regiment, Bn 1/5 / British Army, Div 51 / British Army, Black Watch, 6th Battalion / journalism and record, British - photographer / society, British - romance: [-] / society, British military - friendship / society, French military - friendship / society, Italian military - friendship / weapons, British - gun: 6-inch 26cwt howitzer / combat, British - artillery bombardment / propaganda, British - inspirational / prisoners of war, German - movement / intelligence, military, British - interrogation / prisoners of war, German - reception / casualties, German dead - battlefield / casualties, British wounded - battlefield / casualties, French wounded - battlefield / casualties, Italian wounded - battlefield / 31/3(41) / 01/3(4-15).91 [1918 Tardenois] / GB, England / Bois de Reims, Marne, France / half-light
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Topical Film Company
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound
  • Language: fr

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