the ARTISTS RIFLES [Main]


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  • Other title(s): [the BRITISH REGIMENTS] [Allocated Series]
  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 3 mins
  • Description: By 1916 the Artists Rifles was not a serving battalion but a holding unit for officer trainees. A group of trainees is shown drilling on a parade ground, probably at Montreuil, and being addressed by its commanding officer. The battalion acts as the guard of honour for the visit of General Cadorna, the Italian C-in-C, to Douglas Haig in March 1916. The battalion training course shows recruits how to tie knots, construct a log bridge over a stream, make a raft from a gas cape stuffed with straw, and punt this down a river. A transport bus carrying soldiers (of the battalion ?) passes through a village, rounding the corner of the road at the top of a hill.
    The Artists Rifles, or 1/28th (County of London) Battalion, the London Regiment, in France 1916-1917.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / Cadorna, Luigi / Haig, Douglas / British Army, London Regiment, Bn 28 / training, British military: [+] / delegations, Italian international - military / transport, British military - bus / 01/3(4-15) / Montreuil, Pas-de-Calais, France
  • 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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