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WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 383-1 (fragment) [Main]

PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 383-1 (fragment) [alternative]

Austin armoured cars stand on the bridge, covering it with machine guns, as trams pass along and German civilians go about their business. (Note the British official photographer J Warwick Brooke at work.) At one end of the bridge a British Vickers machine gun post has been set up, manned by 'B' Squadron, 18th Hussars. With the soldiers are German civilians with rifles and armbands, acting as a te…

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Contributors

  • Topical Film Company

Subject

  • EFG1914
  • Brooke, John Warwick
  • British Army, Hussars, 18
  • Occupation police, Germany
  • British Army
  • administration, British - occupation
  • armour, British - armoured car: Austin
  • weapons, British - smallarm: Vickers machine gun
  • journalism and record, British - photographer
  • celebrations, French - liberation
  • …
  • British Army
  • John Warwick Brooke
  • World War I

Type of item

  • motion pictures (visual works)
  • Film