READY FOR THE ENEMY [Main]

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Année: 1916
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Durée: 7 mins
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Description: A British column of mules and wagons moves down a hill road. British soldiers and Greek civilians unloading and stacking stores. French 105mm howitzers, limbered up, moving along a dirt road. British soldiers hauling an 18-pounder field gun into position. A French shell dump with 75mm shells being fused on a special machine. A British soldier throwing Mills grenades from a trench. A Vickers machine gun team in action (note the machine-gunner 'tapping' the gun handles to spread the cone of fire). A heavily camouflaged "huge gun", possibly a British 6-inch Mk VII field gun, shown from front and rear.
British and French troops on the Salonika Front, probably 1916.
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Mots-clés: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army / French Army / supplies, British, storage [RA] - misc / supplies, French, storage [RA] - munitions / weapons, French - gun: 105mm howitzer / weapons, British - gun: 18-pounder field gun / equipment, French - fire control: fusing mechanism / weapons, British - smallarm: Vickers machine gun & [+] / training, British military - weapons: machine gun & [+] / weapons, British - gun: 6-inch Mark VII (?) / 01/3(497) / Greece & Salonika area, Macedonia
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Fournisseur: Imperial War Museums
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Droits: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
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Société de production: International Film Service
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Couleur: Black & White
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Sound: Without sound
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