the MAKING OF AN OFFICER : with the Artists Rifles at the Front [Main]


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  • Kitas pavadinimas (ai): OFFICIAL PICTURES OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE - FIRST SERIES [series]
  • Metai: 1916
  • Trukmė: 10 mins
  • Aprašymas: Drill and musketry instruction. On sentry training British and French sentries together stop a staff car to check the occupants. Out in the country, the trainees cut brushwood for hurdles. They learn how to make bridges from tree trunks and rafts from gas capes filled with straw. They repair trench systems, and construct wire entanglements. An officer teaches them the elements of map reading. After a final address by the commanding officer they leave the training battalion in a bus of 16th AUX MT Company. On arrival at an officer cadet school they are instructed in using and stripping the Vickers machine gun and throwing hand grenades.
    British basic officer training in the Artists Rifles, St-Omer, Western Front, December 1915.
  • Raktažodžiai: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, London Regiment, Bn 1/28 / training, British military: [+] / transport, British military - bus / weapons, British - smallarm: Vickers machine gun / 01/3(4-15).4 / Saint Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France
  • Tiekėjas: Imperial War Museums
  • Teisės: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Gamybos kompanija: British Topical Committee for War Films
  • Spalva: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound