WITH THE INDIAN TROOPS AT THE FRONT PART I [Main]


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  • Autre(s) titre(s): OFFICIAL PICTURES OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE - FIRST SERIES [series]
  • Année: 1916
  • Durée: 9 mins
  • Description: The officers' mess, a building away from the battle zone, of 58th (Vaughan's) Rifles, with officers entering and leaving. Pan over a group of soldiers from 57th (Wilde's) Rifles. An outdoor "durbar" (orderly room) for 47th Sikhs - some officers sit while three new soldiers are paraded before them and perform the ritual of offering the blades of their bayonets for each officer in turn to touch as a symbol of loyalty. An open air workshop for the Sappers and Miners at which they shape wood, making wooden trench periscopes. Gurkhas sharpen their kukris on a grindstone. A demonstration of a "Khattak" or ritual sword dance. Sikhs in formal wrestling bouts which others watch. 34th Sikh Pioneers dig shallow trenches from start to completion with a sandbag parapet and coiled wire in front. 57th (Wilde's) Rifles machine gun section demonstrates setting up its two Maxims in a wood and then retiring with them. At a "refilling point" on a muddy road British and Indian soldiers collect food and fodder for their horses. 4th Cavalry entrains its horses and waits for the order to load its men.
    Units of the former Indian Corps, just after its disbandment, in rear areas before their departure from France, November and December 1915.
  • Mots-clés: EFG1914 / World War I / Indian Army, 57th Wilde's Rifles (Frontier Force) / Indian Army, 58th Vaughan's Rifles (Frontier Force) / Indian Army, 47th Sikhs / Indian Army, 34th Sikh Pioneers / Indian Army, 4th Cavalry / Indian Army, Indian Engineers / Indian Army, 7th (Meerut) Division / Indian Army, Gurkhas / ceremonies, Indian - customary: blade touching / equipment, Indian - personal: trench periscope / recreation, Indian military - sport: wrestling / society, Indian military - ethnic / supplies, Indian, storage [RA] - food / weapons, British - smallarm: Vickers machine gun & [Indian] / weapons, Indian - powderless: kukri / 01/3(4-15).4 / France / World War, 1914-1918 -- France / Race
  • Fournisseur: Imperial War Museums
  • Droits: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Société de production: British Topical Committee for War Films
  • Couleur: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound