COLONIAL INFANTRY AND CAVALRY MARCHING ACROSS THE VELDT [Main Title]

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  • Title: COLONIAL INFANTRY AND CAVALRY MARCHING ACROSS THE VELDT [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 1081a
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  • Summary: Cavalry and Infantry marching past on a grassy parade ground, South Africa, 1900
  • Description: The parade starts and ends with contingents of light horse. In between them are foot soldiers, two companies each with a Maxim gun on a hand cart. All the men are in slouch hats and shirtsleeve order.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 1081a)
  • Featured Period: Pre-1914
  • Production Date: 1900
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details:
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, South African personnel (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: weapons, British - smallarm (mounted): Maxim machine gun & [South African] (object name) ceremonies, South African - display (object name) 01/2(68).0 (event) South Africa (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: 98 ft; Running time: 2 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Summary: the identification of this film was made by James Barker, late of the Department of Information Retrieval, Imperial War Museum, in work for the television series 'Flashback' Technical: this item is currently held on a single reel with films IWM 1081b-g, the can is marked as IWM 1081 Remarks: despite the title, there were no Colonial forces sent to South Africa intended as Infantry, although some were sent to be given horses as Mounted Infantry. These are therefore probably local South African recruits, referred to confusingly by the British as 'Colonials'
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    IWM 1081a

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