THE SUFFOLK REGIMENT [Main Title]

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  • Title: THE SUFFOLK REGIMENT [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 393
  • Other titles: THE BRITISH REGIMENTS [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, in the rear areas of the Western Front, autumn 1917.
  • Description: A posed group of the battalion officers. Men sitting and drinking outside a kiosk marked as the "Divisional Canteen". The camp barber at work outside his tent. The men stand outside their own tents cleaning their equipment and weapons, then wash themselves at a semi-permanent arrangement of basins and standpipes. Some of the men play cards. Food containers arrive and the men are served with a form of meatloaf. They rest beside their tents. A company in helmets and field equipment, led by its band, marches over "territory captured from the Germans". A single file of men crosses an overgrown German trench, and the men sit round as an officer, at the bottom of the trench, lectures them on German emplacements. Some of the men scramble over the wreck of a German reinforced concrete lookout tower. Two of the soldiers inspect two temporary wooden crosses marking German graves. A side view of the men defending a trench among trees in a training exercise.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918-03
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Cinema Committee (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Suffolk Regiment, 2nd Battalion (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: operations, British military - routine (object name) recreation, British military - casual (object name) society, British military - hygiene (object name) society, British military - sustenance (object name) defences, German - emplacement: [captured] (object name) casualties, German graves - battlefield (object name) 01/3(4-15).7 (event) France (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: English Subtitle language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 528 ft; Running time: 9 mins
  • Notes: Summary: see also IWM 388 and the rest of the series Technical: the quality of the print is very poor, making it difficult to interpret Remarks: valueless as a record of a specific battalion, but the choice of items to film is rather more inspired than is typical for the series
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