PATHE GAZETTE [1925] - THE BATTLE OF QUARLEY : terminates the 'Great War of 1925' [Main]


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  • Year: 1925
  • Runtime: 4 mins
  • Description: A howitzer, apparently a 6-inch 26cwt without its gunshield, opens fire. An assembled group of military attachés watches - Japanese, Polish, Italian and French officers are recognisable. Gunners remove the camouflage from their 6-inch Mark VII gun, open fire and cover it again. Vickers Medium Mark I tanks burst out from the cover of a wood. "Aeroplanes, smoke screens, tanks, all played their part - but it's 'the infantry' that counts in the end." Smoke drums generate a smokescreen. Infantry in extended line advance through the smoke with tank support. The soldiers form a firing line in the open as the tanks come through on their flank. At the end of the exercise the troops march back along the road.
    Newsreel item on Army manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain, summer 1925.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army / training, British military - combat / training, British military - combat: artillery / weapons, British - gun: 6-inch 26cwt howitzer / weapons, British - gun: 6-inch Mark VII / defences, British - passive: camouflage / weapons, British - CBW: smokescreen / delegations, Japanese international - military / delegations, Polish international - military / delegations, Italian international - military / delegations, French international - military / armour, British - tank: Vickers Medium Mark I / Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, UK / Quarley area, Wiltshire, England, UK
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Pathe
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound

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