ROMICOURT - ARMENTIÈRES NEAR ESTAIRES [Main Title]

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  • Title: ROMICOURT - ARMENTIÈRES NEAR ESTAIRES [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 347
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  • Summary: Unedited film of British forces on the Armentières - Estaires road during the Advance to Victory, Western Front, mid-October 1918.
  • Description: Five small Commer lorries carry British troops up the road. Civilian refugees are evacuated by another lorry, which drives off. More lorryloads of troops move up the road. The view down from a wrecked German Maxim machine gun to the trench and belts of wire it was meant to defend. Bodies can be seen between the trench and the wire. A German temporary military graveyard marked with wooden crosses. A partly destroyed church, possibly at Estaires.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company) Bassill, F A (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: transport, British military - truck: Commer lorry (object name) operations, British military - movement: road (object name) refugees, French - flight (object name) weapons, German - smallarm: Maxim machine gun & [captured] & [wrecked] (object name) defences, German - emplacement: trenches & [captured] & [wrecked] (object name) casualties, German graves - battlefield (object name) buildings, French - religious: church & [damaged] (object name) 01/3(4-15).9 (event) Estaires, Nord, France (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 432 ft; Running time: 6 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Title: the name 'Romicourt' does not appear on any maps of the area between Armentières and Estaires. The title has been taken from the shotsheet Remarks: this film shows well the extent to which transport in the British Army had become mechanised by the end of the First World War
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