the BATTLE OF CARENCY (fragment 1) [Main]


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  • Year: 1915
  • Runtime: 1 min
  • Description: A French soldier leads a wounded German prisoner "stupefied by the force of the French bombardment" to the rear along a railway track. A French soldier holds up for the benefit of the camera a number of expended shells, "smoke cartridges for blinding assailants, shrapnel and projectiles each charged with 11lbs of Cheddite," used by the Germans in the battle.
    Continuation of the French account of the Battle of Carency (Second Battle of Artois), Western Front, May-June 1915.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / French Army / prisoners of war, German - movement / propaganda, French - inflammatory / spoils, French / 01/3(4-15).38
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Gaumont
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound

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