AUSTRALIAN CORPS TRAINING SCHOOL [Main]
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Jaar: 1918
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Speelduur: 6 mins
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Beschrijving: Opening with a pan over a group of Australian soldiers of various divisions wearing their bush hats and watching the exercise. This is followed by the exercise itself. Australian troops in full battle equipment run past a cloud of earth thrown up by an explosion. Some go over a bayonet assault course wearing their gasmasks. Two, with bush hats, fire rifle grenades from a kneeling position. The final scene is platoon training. In a very realistic exercise the platoon, led by its officer, practises bombing up the traverses in a training trench, a grenade being thrown and the men dashing forward to arrive just after the explosion. Finally a 3-inch mortar is fired from a trench.
A demonstration by Australian Infantry of tactics used in trench fighting on the Western Front, early 1918 (?).
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Trefwoorden: EFG1914 / World War I / Australian Army, Australian Imperial Force / training, Australian military - combat: [+] / training, Australian military - weapons / weapons, British - mortar: 3-inch Stokes & [Australian] / weapons, British - projector: rifle grenade & [Australian] / 01/3(4-15).8 (?) / France / World War, 1914-1918 -- France / Belgium / World War, 1914-1918 -- Belgium
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Collectie:
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Provider: Imperial War Museums
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Rechten: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
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Kleur: Black & White
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Sound: Without sound
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