OBSERVING FOR OUR HEAVY GUNS [Main]


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  • Other title(s): OFFICIAL PICTURES OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE - FIFTH SERIES [series]
  • Year: 1916
  • Runtime: 8 mins
  • Description: A kite balloon is positioned by RFC ground staff and ascends over a small village. The view down from the basket and a (faked) close-up of the observer and signaller spotting from the basket. A 60-pounder battery receives the signal and the observer directs its fire. The gun fires several times, and a 6-inch Mk VII gun joins in, "note its tremendous recoil". The balloon is then lowered and the basket touches ground bumpily.
    Semi-dramatised account of British aerial spotting techniques for guns on the Western Front, probably at Locre, March 1916.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / Royal Air Force, Royal Flying Corps / British Army, Royal Artillery, Royal Garrison Artillery / aircraft, British - balloon: observation kite balloon / weapons, British - gun: 60-pounder / weapons, British - gun: 6-inch Mark VII / communications, British air - wire: [+] / combat, British - artillery bombardment / 01/3(4-15).5 / Locre, West Flanders, Belgium
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: British Topical Committee for War Films
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound