SCENES ON THE MENIN ROAD [Main]


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  • Year: 1917
  • Runtime: 12 mins
  • Description: I. German prisoners escorted by Yeomanry over an iron bridge. A metre-gauge railway train holding a platoon of the Queen's Regiment. A repair workshop for guns and howitzers. A group of soldiers shaving in a field of horses. Royal Engineers in combat gear coming up a trench. Soldiers clearing mud from a narrow gauge railway track. Guns, hidden by scrim netting, firing, followed by mules being led past them. A poor quality shot of a 6-inch howitzer (?). A party of Durham Light Infantry falling in by a roadside. Men of the King's Royal Rifle Corps and Royal Engineers digging a trench. Soldiers eating in the open. A chaplain assisting in the treatment of a man with a wounded arm. German prisoners sitting with British stretcher-bearers. II. The film ends with a poor quality scene of German prisoners carrying Australians on stretchers to the rear, from IWM 158 FIGHTING IN FLANDERS.
    General views of the area around Ypres, Western Front, probably 1917.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Kent Regiment, West Royal / British Army, Royal Engineers / British Army, yeomanry / British Army, Durham Light Infantry / British Army, King's Royal Rifle Corps / Australian Army, Australian Imperial Force / defences, British - emplacement: trenches / engineering, military, British / society, British military - sustenance / society, British military - hygiene / weapons, British - gun: 6-inch 26cwt howitzer & [-] / transport, British military - rail: narrow gauge train / religion, Christianity - military, British / medical, British military - emergency / prisoners of war, German - movement / 01/3(4-15).74 / Menin Road, Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Topical Film Company
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound

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