ROMICOURT - ARMENTIÈRES NEAR ESTAIRES [Main]


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  • Metai: 1918
  • Trukmė: 6 mins
  • Aprašymas: Five small Commer lorries carry British troops up the road. Civilian refugees are evacuated by another lorry, which drives off. More lorryloads of troops move up the road. The view down from a wrecked German Maxim machine gun to the trench and belts of wire it was meant to defend. Bodies can be seen between the trench and the wire. A German temporary military graveyard marked with wooden crosses. A partly destroyed church, possibly at Estaires.
    Unedited film of British forces on the Armentières - Estaires road during the Advance to Victory, Western Front, mid-October 1918.
  • Raktažodžiai: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army / transport, British military - truck: Commer lorry / operations, British military - movement: road / refugees, French - flight / weapons, German - smallarm: Maxim machine gun & [captured] & [wrecked] / defences, German - emplacement: trenches & [captured] & [wrecked] / casualties, German graves - battlefield / buildings, French - religious: church & [damaged] / 01/3(4-15).9 / Estaires, Nord, France
  • Tiekėjas: Imperial War Museums
  • Teisės: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Gamybos kompanija: Topical Film Company
  • Spalva: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound