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DESTRUCTION OF A GERMAN BLOCKHOUSE BY A 9.2 HOWITZER [Main]

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

The howitzer is in a leafless wood. Its crew remove its camouflage, load the howitzer and elevate it (this is the number 4 gun of the battery). They uncover a pile of shells and roll them forward ready to be lifted up by special tongs. The howitzer fires, then is sponged out and reloaded three times. Another camera in a hide a short distance away from a German blockhouse records through a loophole…

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Contributors

  • British Topical Committee for War Films

Subject

  • EFG1914
  • British Army, Royal Artillery, Royal Garrison Artillery
  • weapons, British - gun: 9.2-inch howitzer & [+]
  • destruction, German military - aimed: artillery bombardment & [+]
  • defences, German - emplacement: blockhouse & [wrecked]
  • communications, British military - wire
  • 01/3(4-15).5
  • France
  • Belgium
  • World War, 1914-1918--France
  • World War, 1914-1918--Belgium
  • France
  • Belgium
  • World War I

Type of item

  • motion pictures (visual works)
  • Film