WITH THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY IN ACTION [Main]


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  • Andere titel(s): OFFICIAL PICTURES OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE - THIRD SERIES [series]
  • Jaar: 1916
  • Speelduur: 9 mins
  • Beschrijving: An 18-pounder field gun battery emerges head-on out of a farm courtyard onto a very wet and muddy road. RFA gunners pack 18-pounder shells into wooden boxes for transportation. A 4.5-inch field howitzer fires from brushwood cover. At an observation post a Forward Observation Officer (FOO) with his team, one with a trench periscope, relays firing orders with a notepad and field telephone. Men of an 18-pounder battery run to enter a gun pit entirely concealed in reeds. The battery fires, shown visible from the rear but almost completely hidden from the front. View from a front trench of shells bursting over the German lines 200 metres away - the ground is flat and without cover. The FOO relays fresh orders to the battery which continues its shoot. Another view of the 4.5-inch howitzer firing.
    Royal Field Artillery in action in Flanders, early 1916.
  • Trefwoorden: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Royal Artillery, Royal Field Artillery / weapons, British - gun: 18-pounder field gun / weapons, British - gun: 4.5-inch howitzer / communications, British military - wire / combat, British - artillery bombardment / 01/3(4-15).5 / Belgium / World War, 1914-1918 -- Belgium / France / World War, 1914-1918 -- France / mud
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rechten: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Productiemaatschappij: British Topical Committee for War Films
  • Kleur: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound