GERMAN PRISONERS - SCENES AT LA BOZELLE (sic) [Main]


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  • Other title(s): SONS OF OUR EMPIRE (related scenes) [related]
  • Year: 1917
  • Runtime: 13 mins
  • Description: A column of prisoners, "Prussians and Bavarians" moving over rough ground with an escort. A body search of prisoners in a trench. German prisoners help British RAMC men with British and German wounded at a dressing station. Parties of four British stretcher bearers, one with a head wound, carry stretcher cases to the rear, followed by British and German walking wounded. German prisoners grin at the camera. More stretcher bearers and columns of German prisoners. Maintenance work being done on tanks in a captured village. Gordon Highlanders (?) digging or reinforcing a trench line. British soldiers cleaning up trenches, "enemy trenches at La Bozelle (sic, presumably La Boisselle) after our guns had finished with them".
    Mixed stock material of German prisoners of the British, Western Front, 1916-1918.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps / British Army, Gordon Highlanders / prisoners of war, German - movement: [+] / prisoners of war, German - reception / medical, British military - emergency / operations, British military - maintenance / armour, British - tank: Tank Mark I Male / 01/3(4-15) / La Boisselle, Somme, France
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound

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