THE RIFLE BRIGADE [Main Title]

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  • Title: THE RIFLE BRIGADE [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 416
  • Other titles: THE BRITISH REGIMENTS [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: 2nd Battalion, the Rifle Brigade, on the Western Front, autumn 1917.
  • Description: Groups of men and officers pose for the camera. The men soap their equipment, and clean their uniforms and rifles. One man stands in a pit with a Lewis machine gun on an anti-aircraft mount and a pair of binoculars. Cooks carry dixies of food to a temporary cookhouse, and soup is served out. The battalion rests outside some huts. Sides of meat are unloaded from a wagon. Two companies from the battalion march along a dirt road near the front.
  • Alternative Title: THE BRITISH REGIMENTS [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 416
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918-02
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Cinema Committee (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Rifle Brigade, 2nd Battalion (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: operations, British military - routine (object name) society, British military - routine (object name) society, British military - sustenance (object name) weapons, British - smallarm: Lewis machine gun (object name) 01/3(4-15).7 (event) France (geography) Belgium (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: 318 ft; Running time: 6 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 416

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:
Register