the ESSEX REGIMENT [Main]


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  • Other title(s): [the BRITISH REGIMENTS] [Allocated Series]
  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 6 mins
  • Description: I. A posed group of men of the battalion lying on the grass. Signallers practise semaphore on the parade ground. Stretcher-bearer teams, also on the parade ground, go through the drill of helping casualties. Four battalion boot-repairers at work. The mid-day meal is issued to the men who queue up with their mess tins. Men of the battalion are billeted in a farm and walk up an outside stairway to a hayloft. The mail arrives and the men cluster round to receive parcels. A company marches down a country road in shirtsleeve order. II. Two unrelated scenes have become attached to the end of the film. Recruiting bands march through city streets joined by civilians. Two observers, in a faked close-up, in a balloon basket.
    A regular battalion of the Essex Regiment in the rear areas of the Western Front, autumn 1917.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Essex Regiment / operations, British military - routine / training, British military - specialist: signals / communications, British military - direct: semaphore / training, British military - specialist: medical / society, British military - sustenance / communications, British military - postal / recruitment, British military: recruiting march / aircraft, British - balloon: observation kite balloon / 01/3(4-15).7 / 31/3(41) / France / World War, 1914-1918 -- France / GB, England
  • 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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