[MESOPOTAMIA (rough material)] [Allocated]


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  • Andere titel(s): [MESOPOTAMIA (rough material)] [Allocated]
    WITH THE FORCES IN MESOPOTAMIA (offcuts) [related]
  • Jaar: 1917
  • Speelduur: 20 mins
  • Beschrijving: Probably offcuts from IWM 61 WITH THE FORCES IN MESOPOTAMIA. (Reel 1) Camouflaged 60-pounder guns firing dug in. A gunner observing from a perch, possibly close to Ramadi. Indian troops unload sacks from a train. A prone Lewis machine-gunner firing. British soldiers filling water buckets. A close-up of the feed action on a Vickers machine gun as it fires from a trench. An 18-pounder battery firing in the desert. Turkish 1-pounder pom-pom guns and machine guns captured at Ramadi and put on display. Shells bursting in the desert filmed from a trench. A walled city by the River Tigris with a railway station, probably Samarra. Indian troops fire through loopholes in a heavily sandbagged trench. An observation tower made from sandbags. A 6-inch 30cwt howitzer being loaded and fired. Highlanders, probably 2nd Battalion, Black Watch of 7th (Meerut) Division, march through the streets of Samarra with Lieutenant-General Sir William Marshall (?) accompanying them. A Holt tractor hauls a 60-pounder through the desert. (Reel 2) Turkish prisoners captured during the Battle of Ramadi are marched by 1/5th Battalion, the Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) through the desert, over a bridge of boats across the River Tigris at Baghdad, through 'Piccadilly Circus' and 'New Street' Baghdad and on to a prisoner of war camp.
    Very jumbled film of British forces in the Battle of Ramadi, Mesopotamian Front, 28-29 September 1917.
  • Trefwoorden: EFG1914 / World War I / Marshall, William R (?) / British Army, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force / British Army, Black Watch, 2nd Battalion / British Army, Kent Regiment, West Royal, Bn 1/5 / Indian Army, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force / Indian Army, 7th (Meerut) Division / weapons, British - gun: 60-pounder / weapons, British - smallarm: Vickers machine gun & [+] / weapons, British - smallarm: Lewis machine gun / weapons, British - gun: 18-pounder field gun / weapons, German - gun: 1-pounder pom-pom & [British] & [captured] / weapons, British - gun: 6-inch 26cwt howitzer / combat, British - artillery bombardment [d] / buildings, Mesopotamian - commercial: railway station / combat, British - machine gun: [+] / combat, Indian / prisoners of war, Turkish - movement / prisoners of war, Turkish - custody / 01/3(567) / Turkey & Ramadi area, Mesopotamia / Turkey & Samarra, Mesopotamia / Turkey & Baghdad, Mesopotamia / desert
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rechten: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Productiemaatschappij: International Film Service
  • Kleur: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound