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WORK OF THE METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

Three members of the section, all from different regiments, use gas cylinders from a portable trailer to inflate two small weather balloons, using a lead weight to determine the gas pressure of each b...

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HM THE KING'S VISIT TO THE TANK SCHOOL, WOOL, DORSET [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

A Mark V Star tank moves away down a slope, its guns firing. Along with two other tanks it advances against dummy trenches. A Medium A Whippet moves away with the coastline visible behind it. King Geo...

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OUR WONDERFUL TANKS [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

(Reel 1) The setting is a large tank park with a training ground next to it. This has a number of artificial obstacles, water-filled craters and steep banks. The tanks are unmarked except for serial n...

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ZEEBRUGGE (ledger title) [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

Long shot from a gun position, part of the Lübeck Battery on the mole, and pan right - three men stand in front of the gun, surveying the harbour. Man picks at debris in gunners' cupboard behind a 15...

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[STATE ENTRY OF THE KING AND QUEEN OF BELGIUM INTO BRUGES] [Allocated]
1918
Imperial War Museums
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- [STATE ENTRY OF THE KING AND QUEEN OF BELGIUM INTO BRUGES] [Allocated]

The square is surrounded on all sides by people waving flags and cheering. The King and Queen are on horseback in the centre of the square, the King wearing Belgian Army uniform with a shrapnel helmet...

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ANNUAL PROCESSION OF THE MANUNAL (HOLY CARPET) FROM THE CITADEL OF CAIRO TO MECCA [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

The Manunal was a covering mat or carpet for the Kaa'ba outside the Great Mosque at Mecca. Very highly decorated, a new one was made in Cairo each year and transported in ceremonial procession to Port...

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DOUAI AND LILLE [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...

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[ARRIVAL OF PRINCE YORIHITO OF HIGASHI-FUSHIMI IN ENGLAND, 1918] [Allocated]
1918
Imperial War Museums
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- [ARRIVAL OF PRINCE YORIHITO OF HIGASHI-FUSHIMI IN ENGLAND, 1918] [Allocated]

The Prince is piped on board a ship in Dover harbour and his staff line up for inspection. He is greeted by a number of British Army and Royal Navy officers, the most senior being Major Prince Arthur ...

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