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the GREAT BRITISH OFFENSIVE [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

(Reel 1) Near Bapaume a German "anti-tank gun" lies in an unidentifiable wreck with its crew dead beside it. Shells burst in the distance. Two 6-inch Mk VII guns are drawn by Holt tractors to new posi...

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PORTUGUESE TROOPS IN FRANCE [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

The film opens with an unrelated shot of troops digging a trench line. It continues as Portuguese mule-drawn field gun limbers come down a steep grassy bank towards the camera. They turn and wheel on ...

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SEPTEMBER OFFENSIVE 3 [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

(Reel 1) Stretcher-bearers with wounded, some German, arrive at an advanced dressing station. (Some of the bearers are German prisoners with Red Cross armbands.) Described as Achiet-le-Grand but possi...

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SEPTEMBER OFFENSIVE 4 [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

Gun limbers and GS wagons move up a sunken road in the rear areas of the battlefield. German prisoners are marched back in column of twos along the road, passing the horsed transport. A horsed vehicle...

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SEPTEMBER OFFENSIVE 6 [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

Firstly, a column of Infantry marching through a town showing shell damage - the light values have been set wrongly and the film is far too dark. This is followed by British, or possibly Canadian, sol...

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SEPTEMBER OFFENSIVE 7 [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

A pan over a ruined village, Villers Bretonneux (?) filmed from a church tower, showing British troops and transport moving in the streets below. Two soldiers look out through the crenellations of the...

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WOMEN'S ARMY IN FRANCE 2 [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

WAACs at a temporary shelter serve food to a waiting queue of other WAACs, all very camera-conscious. A WAAC platoon route marches across open moorland. WAACs erect bell tents in woodland with a villa...

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WOMEN'S ARMY IN FRANCE (completed version) [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

A male sergeant-major oversees WAAC clerks at desks and benches indoors. ASC and WAAC clerks sort through a complex card index file spread out over several tables (the casualty records in the banqueti...

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