[BRITISH TROOPS IN SALONIKA - 2] [Allocated]


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  • Weitere Titel: [BRITISH TROOPS IN SALONIKA - 2] [Allocated]
  • Jahr: 1917
  • Dauer: 20 mins
  • Beschreibung: Two 13-pounder anti-aircraft guns firing on raised platforms. An 18-pounder field gun behind scrim netting firing. A senior officer (possibly Major-General C J Briggs) decorating British soldiers. An open air church parade. A Vickers machine gun on an improvised anti-aircraft mount. British troops march past the brigadier-general. A 6-inch howitzer firing. A Yeomanry dismounted outpost (a 'cossack post'). British soldiers on the march and waiting in trenches, including a scene of an officer firing a Very pistol from the mouth of a dugout. British horsemen on the march. Serbian (?) troops on the march. British transport wagons crossing a ford. British ASC troops loading supplies onto a pack mule. A canteen being filled from a pump. A wounded soldier being carried on a stretcher. A horse being helped to its feet by British soldiers. Wagon limbers being manhandled down a slope.
    British troops in action on the Salonika Front, probably early 1917.
  • Schlüsselwörter: EFG1914 / World War I / Briggs, Charles James / British Army, Royal Army Service Corps / British Army, yeomanry / British Army, infantry / Serbian Army / weapons, British - gun [AA]: 13-pounder / weapons, British - gun: 18-pounder field gun / ceremonies, British - event-related: investiture / religion, Christianity - military, British / operations, British military - routine / equipment, British - personal: Very pistol / operations, British military - movement: march / supplies, British, movement [RA] - misc / casualties, British wounded - battlefield / animals, mammals: horse / 01/3(497) / Greece & Salonika area, Macedonia
  • Anbieter: Imperial War Museums
  • Rechte: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Produktionsfirma: International Film Service
  • Farbe: Black & White
  • Ton: Without sound