the RIFLE BRIGADE [Main]

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Other title(s): [the BRITISH REGIMENTS] [Allocated Series]
Year: 1918
Runtime: 6 mins
Description: Groups of men and officers pose for the camera. The men soap their equipment, and clean their uniforms and rifles. One man stands in a pit with a Lewis machine gun on an anti-aircraft mount and a pair of binoculars. Cooks carry dixies of food to a temporary cookhouse, and soup is served out. The battalion rests outside some huts. Sides of meat are unloaded from a wagon. Two companies from the battalion march along a dirt road near the front.
2nd Battalion, the Rifle Brigade, on the Western Front, autumn 1917.
Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Rifle Brigade, 2nd Battalion / operations, British military - routine / society, British military - routine / society, British military - sustenance / weapons, British - smallarm: Lewis machine gun / 01/3(4-15).7 / France / World War, 1914-1918 -- France / Belgium / World War, 1914-1918 -- Belgium
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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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