Title:J BATTERY, 2ND CAVALRY DIVISION, 20TH JUNE 1918 [Main Title]
Film Number:IWM 246
Other titles:
Summary: Stock film of a Royal Horse Artillery 13-pounder battery manoeuvring at high speed, rear areas of the Western Front, 20 June 1918.
Description: The battery canters into a field and unlimbers, deploying its guns, then relimbers and canters off. The battery canters in column head-on out of the field and turns away when close to the camera. One limber comes back in the opposite direction. (Note the 'linked horseshoe' divisional badge on the limbers.) Limbered-up guns canter over a bump facing away from the camera - one gun overturns in the process and another is already lying wrecked nearby. The battery including outriders canters through and along a deep stream, throwing up a lot of spray.
Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
Topical Film Company (Production company)
McDowell, J B (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Div, Cavalry, 2 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery, Royal Horse Artillery, J Battery (regiment/service)
Keywords: operations, British military - routine: horse artillery & [+] (object name)
training, British military - weapons: horse artillery (object name)
01/3(4-15).8 (event)
France (geography)
Belgium (geography)
Instruction (concept)
half-light (concept)