PATHE GAZETTE [1925] - GETTING READY FOR THE GREAT MANOEUVRES [Main]


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  • Year: 1925
  • Runtime: 2 mins
  • Description: A line of Vickers Medium Mark I tanks, almost wheel-to-wheel, "greatly improved and much speedier than those in the Great War". A Dragon tows an 18-pounder Mark IV field gun along a road. At a field bakery back at the camp food is prepared for the soldiers, who are mainly Welsh Guards.
    Newsreel item on Army manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain, summer 1925.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army / British Army, Welsh Guards / armour, British - tank: Vickers Medium Mark I / armour, British - carrier: Dragon / society, British military - sustenance / training, British military - combat / Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, UK
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Pathe
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound

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