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WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 347-2 (Spanish version, fragment) [Main]
PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 347-1 (Spanish version, fragment) [alternative]
An overturned 18-pounder field gun with the dead bodies of its horses and crew beside it. Soldiers, including a Lewis gunner in the foreground, holding a slit trench. Cavalry officers (dismounted) hold an open air briefing while German prisoners rest nearby.The film shows a crowd of cheering children. Clynes arrives and performs the opening ceremony. The children, rather camera-shy, hold jugs of s…
Contributors
- Topical Film Company
Subject
- EFG1914
- Clynes, J R
- British Army
- Ministry of Food
- French Army
- weapons, British - gun: 18-pounder field gun & [wrecked]
- casualties, British dead - battlefield
- weapons, British - smallarm: Lewis machine gun
- prisoners of war, German - custody
- animals, mammals: horse & [casualties]
- …
- French Army
- British Army
- World War I
Type of item
- motion pictures (visual works)
- Film
Contributors
- Topical Film Company
Subject
- EFG1914
- Clynes, J R
- British Army
- Ministry of Food
- French Army
- weapons, British - gun: 18-pounder field gun & [wrecked]
- casualties, British dead - battlefield
- weapons, British - smallarm: Lewis machine gun
- prisoners of war, German - custody
- animals, mammals: horse & [casualties]
- …
- French Army
- British Army
- World War I
Type of item
- motion pictures (visual works)
- Film
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Rights
- Imperial War Museums
Creation date
- 1918
- 1918
Places
- Somme, France
- GB, England & London, N <Stoke Newington>
- Burslem, Staffordshire, England, UK
- Somme, France
- United Kingdom
- Burslem
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Amiens
- Stoke Newington
- Spain
- England
- France
- Staffordshire
- United Kingdom
Provenance
- Imperial War Museums
Identifier
- IWM_693e
- IWM_693e
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Year
- 1918
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-03-31T08:55:29.582Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-10-12T14:35:35.798Z