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SECOND LIFE GUARDS [Main]

[the BRITISH REGIMENTS] [Allocated Series]

I. The film opens with extra scenes of 9.2-inch howitzers and 15-inch howitzers firing, followed by a sergeant and two privates in a trench spotting with a trench periscope. II. The main body of the film shows a troop of 2nd Life Guards, including a Lewis gunner, running forward. (Note that the Hotchkiss automatic rifle replaced the Lewis machine gun in most of the Cavalry after late 1916.) The me…

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Contributors

  • Topical Film Company

Subject

  • EFG1914
  • British Army, Life Guards 2
  • operations, British military - routine
  • training, British military - combat
  • equipment, British military - personal: trench periscope
  • weapons, British - gun: 9.2-inch howitzer
  • weapons, British - gun: 15-inch howitzer
  • weapons, British - smallarm: Lewis machine gun
  • weapons, British - CBW: gas
  • casualties, Canadian graves - formal
  • …
  • World War, 1914-1918--France
  • France
  • World War I

Type of item

  • motion pictures (visual works)
  • Film