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Title:GENERAL DE LISLE PRESENTING MEDALS TO OFFICERS AND MEN [Main Title]
Film Number:IWM 107
Other titles:
Summary: Major-General de Lisle presenting medals, probably Western Front, 1916 (?).
Description: An officer, possibly Major-General H B de Lisle, presenting medals to a kilted battalion, who then march past. A pan over a group from the battalion sitting and smoking. They are possibly the Canadian 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish).
Production Details: War Office Cinema Committee (Production sponsor)
Topical Film Company (Production company)
Malins, Geoffrey H (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: De Lisle, Henry de Beauvoir (person)
British Army (regiment/service)
Canadian Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Bn 16 (regiment/service)
Keywords: delegations, British imperial - military (object name)
ceremonies, British - event-related: investiture (object name)
01/3(4-15).5 (event)
France (geography)
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 398 ft; Running time: 7 mins
Notes: Title: this is taken from the shotsheet.
Cameraman: Malins is given as the cameraman in the store ledger. If this is correct the film was taken either before February 1917, when he retired as a British official cameraman, or after December 1917, when he returned to the Western Front as a Canadian official cameraman.
Summary: all information has been taken from the shotsheet. Nothing further can be discovered about the film, and it is a mystery why de Lisle should present decorations to Canadians.
