Title:BRITISH TROOPS IN SALONIKA - 2 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:IWM 96
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Summary: British troops in action on the Salonika Front, probably early 1917.
Description: Two 13-pounder anti-aircraft guns firing on raised platforms. An 18-pounder field gun behind scrim netting firing. A senior officer (possibly Major-General C J Briggs) decorating British soldiers. An open air church parade. A Vickers machine gun on an improvised anti-aircraft mount. British troops march past the brigadier-general. A 6-inch howitzer firing. A Yeomanry dismounted outpost (a 'cossack post'). British soldiers on the march and waiting in trenches, including a scene of an officer firing a Very pistol from the mouth of a dugout. British horsemen on the march. Serbian (?) troops on the march. British transport wagons crossing a ford. British ASC troops loading supplies onto a pack mule. A canteen being filled from a pump. A wounded soldier being carried on a stretcher. A horse being helped to its feet by British soldiers. Wagon limbers being manhandled down a slope.
Production Details: War Office Cinema Committee (Production sponsor)
International Film Service (Production company)
Varges, Ariel L (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Briggs, Charles James (person)
British Army, Royal Army Service Corps (regiment/service)
British Army, yeomanry (regiment/service)
British Army, infantry (regiment/service)
Serbian Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: weapons, British - gun [AA]: 13-pounder (object name)
weapons, British - gun: 18-pounder field gun (object name)
ceremonies, British - event-related: investiture (object name)
religion, Christianity - military, British (object name)
operations, British military - routine (object name)
equipment, British - personal: Very pistol (object name)
operations, British military - movement: march (object name)
supplies, British, movement [RA] - misc (object name)
casualties, British wounded - battlefield (object name)
animals, mammals: horse (object name)
01/3(497) (event)
Greece & Salonika area, Macedonia (geography)
