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WITH THE INDIAN TROOPS AT THE FRONT PART I [Main]

OFFICIAL PICTURES OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE - FIRST SERIES [series]

The officers' mess, a building away from the battle zone, of 58th (Vaughan's) Rifles, with officers entering and leaving. Pan over a group of soldiers from 57th (Wilde's) Rifles. An outdoor "durbar" (orderly room) for 47th Sikhs - some officers sit while three new soldiers are paraded before them and perform the ritual of offering the blades of their bayonets for each officer in turn to touch as a…

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Contributors

  • British Topical Committee for War Films

Subject

  • EFG1914
  • Indian Army, 57th Wilde's Rifles (Frontier Force)
  • Indian Army, 58th Vaughan's Rifles (Frontier Force)
  • Indian Army, 47th Sikhs
  • Indian Army, 34th Sikh Pioneers
  • Indian Army, 4th Cavalry
  • Indian Army, Indian Engineers
  • Indian Army, 7th (Meerut) Division
  • Indian Army, Gurkhas
  • ceremonies, Indian - customary: blade touching
  • …
  • World War, 1914-1918--France
  • France
  • World War I

Type of item

  • motion pictures (visual works)
  • Film