ANNALES DE LA GUERRE 21 [Main]


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  • Vuosi: 1917
  • Kesto: 11 mins
  • Kuvaus: Three British, one French and three Belgian soldiers walk through an archway. French soldiers of I Corps, on foot and in lorries, pass in both directions down an undamaged street with Belgian troops. (Note the signpost to the Belgian headquarters at Houthem. This may be French First Army headquarters at Rexpoede, just inside the French border.) At a supply dump heavy shells are covered with camouflage netting. A light train is loaded with ammunition and signal rockets. Horse-drawn flatwagons carry away planks of wood from the stores. Another light train is loaded with prefabricated sections of light railway track. A 145mm naval gun, completely camouflaged except for its barrel, is loaded and fired by its marine crew. A 280mm railway gun joins in the barrage. In what looks like a training exercise, sappers pile sandbags into a river to form a breakwater and others float out light pontoon bridges allowing them to cross. In a front line trench the soldiers prepare to attack. One of the four batteries of British 6-inch howitzers with I Corps opens fire. Gunners push a light rail flatcar loaded with shells through thick mud to their guns. Wounded, some walking, some carried by German stretcher-bearers, are taken past a bridge and a lock to the rear areas. This is one of the canal branch lines, possibly passing through Loo in 51st Division area. Where the stretchers are passing, a fatigue party takes cans of water forward. Further on, on the recently-captured German front line, soldiers cross over the Yser Canal. A German captain with a head wound is led back from the front - he salutes the camera. Two soldiers inspect the remains of a German pillbox which has been heavily shelled. In the rear areas German prisoners are led past the canal lock and on to the safe area. King Albert of Belgium arrives with General Anthoine at a French headquarters, possibly Anthoine's own headquarters at Rexpoede. After making their inspections they leave again. The film ends with a portrait shot of Anthoine as commander of the First Army (French and Belgian forces in Flanders).
    French newsreel of their I Corps in the first day of the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), 31st July 1917.
  • Avainsanat: EFG1914 / World War I / Albert I, King of Belgium / Anthoine, Francois / French Army, Army 1 & Corps 1 / French Army, Army 1 & Corps 1 & Div 51 / French Navy, Marines / Belgian Army / British Army / society, British military - friendship / society, French military - friendship / society, Belgian military - friendship / operations, French military - movement: march / operations, French military - movement: road / operations, Belgian military - movement: march / training, French military - specialist: bridge building / supplies, French, storage [FA] - munitions / transport, French military - rail: narrow gauge train / supplies, French, movement [FA] - munitions / supplies, French, movement [FA] - misc / weapons, French - gun: 145mm naval gun / weapons, French - gun: 280mm (railway mounted) / engineering, military, French / operations, French military - preparation / weapons, British - gun: 6-inch 26cwt howitzer / combat, French - artillery bombardment / combat, British - artillery bombardment / casualties, French wounded - battlefield / medical, French military - movement / society, French military - sustenance / prisoners of war, German - movement / defences, German - emplacement: [captured] & [wrecked] / delegations, Belgian international - state / 01/3(4-15).74 / Rexpoede, Nord, France / Yser (Canal), Belgium / mud / camera / World War, 1914-1918 -- Motion pictures and the war
  • Sisältölähde: Imperial War Museums
  • Oikeudet: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Tuotantoyhtiö: Section Cinématographique de l'Armée Française
  • Väri: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound
  • Language: fr

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