the ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT [Main]


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  • Other title(s): [the BRITISH REGIMENTS] [Allocated Series]
  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 8 mins
  • Description: Opening with a close-up profile of a private of the regiment, showing the shoulder-title "Royal Berks" very clearly. A platoon walking past a damaged building. A posed group of NCOs and warrant officers who have been decorated. Two small groups of the battalion officers. Men lining up outside a building to draw "wet rations" (beer) from a barrel. Sections practise Lewis machine gun drill, using six men to a gun in rotation. Other sections practise bayonet fighting and gas alarm drill. The battalion band marches down a street. The men of the transport section ride some of their horses or mules to a billet area where a vet bandages the leg of a very placid "wounded" horse. The men use a machine to cut chaff for the horses and carry nosebags out to them. The transport camp shows the first stages of a semi-permanent wooden building being built.
    Possibly 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, in the rear areas of the Western Front, autumn 1917.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Berkshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion / operations, British military - routine / society, British military - sustenance / training, British military - weapons: machine gun / weapons, British - smallarm: Lewis machine gun / training, British military - combat: bayonet / equipment, British military - personal: gasmask (small box respirator) / animals, mammals: horse & [casualties] / 01/3(4-15).7 / France / World War, 1914-1918 -- France
  • 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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