Log in to see this item in other languages
In Copyright (opens in new window)

WITH THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY IN ACTION [Main]

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

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…

View on the providing institution's website (opens in new window)

Contributors

  • British Topical Committee for War Films

Subject

  • EFG1914
  • 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
  • France
  • mud
  • World War, 1914-1918--Belgium
  • World War, 1914-1918--France
  • France
  • Belgium
  • World War I

Type of item

  • motion pictures (visual works)
  • Film