BRITISH TROOPS IN SALONIKA - 2 [Allocated Title]

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  • 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.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1917
  • Production Country: GB United States of America
  • 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)
  • 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: 1185 ft; Running time: 20 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Production: this may be a private purchase by the IWM, but is more likely to have been filmed by Varges for the British government in spring 1917.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 96

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