ANNALES DE LA GUERRE 47 [Main]


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  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 10 mins
  • Description: The Legion, led by its band, marches up to the front of the cathedral at Puy-les-Volontaires for a mass. The Legion in the main square at Breuil holds a review before its leaders while a number of civilians watch. The officers of the Legion place a wreath at the foot of the statue of Lafayette, who fought alongside the Polish warleader Kosciusko.The Meuse is flooded over a wide area. Soldiers and horsed transport moves past camouflaged screens on the road near Fleury. In response to an alert the guncrew of a 75mm field gun rushes out of its dugout and opens fire, bombarding the far slopes. Near Chambrettes two officers review the position with a map, while soldiers carry duckboards or punts and cut wood. The shattered remains of Caurières Wood are shown. In the second line barbed wire is made into loops and defences set up.First a view of the outside of the conference chamber, then the delegates arrive. The Italians are led by Prime Minister V E Orlando, the Americans by General Pershing, the British by Lloyd George with Colonel Hankey beside him. Clémenceau meets them with Foch, who goes on to inspect a guard of honour. (Camerawork very bad, no clear shot of anyone.)
    I. French newsreel account of the British Mark IV tank HMLS 'Intimidate' towing a captured German 150mm howitzer back to the rear areas after the Battle of Cambrai, Western Front, 29th November 1917.II. French newsreel item on a review of the Polish Legion in France, January 1918.III. French newsreel item of US troops, in marching column, under training in Lorraine, Western Front, January 1918.IV. French newsreel item on their own forces near Verdun, Western Front, January 1918.V. French newsreel item on the Allied Supreme War Council meeting at Versailles, 2nd February 1918.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / Orlando, Vittorio Emanuele / Pershing, John Joseph / Lloyd George, David / Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers / Clemenceau, Georges E B / Foch, Ferdinand J M / British Army, Tank Corps, I Coy / French Army, Polish Legion / United States Army & American Expeditionary Force / French Army / French Army, [gunners] / armour, British - tank: Tank Mark IV Female / weapons, German - gun: 150mm howitzer & [captured] / ceremonies, French - display / ceremonies, Polish - display / buildings, French - religious: cathedral / religion, Christianity - military, Polish / training, United States military / operations, United States military - movement: march / destruction, French: flood / combat, French - artillery bombardment / weapons, French - gun: 75mm field gun / operations, French military - movement: march / equipment, French - navigational: map / destruction, French military - area: artillery bombardment / engineering, military, French / strategy, Allied / delegations, Italian international - political / delegations, British international - political / delegations, French national - political / delegations, United States international - military / delegations, Allied international - political / 01/3(4-15).76 / 31/3(44) / 01/3(4-15).8 / 01/3(4-15).8 / 31/3(44) [1918 Allied Supreme War Council] / Cambrai, Nord, France / Puy-les-Volontaires, France / Breuil, Calvados, France / Alsace, France / Meuse (River), France / Fleury-devant-Douaumont, Meuse, France / Chambrettes, Verdun, Meuse, France / Caurieres Wood, Verdun, Meuse, France / Conference Chamber, Versailles, Yvelines, France
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Section Cinématographique de l'Armée Française
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound
  • Language: fr

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