We use cookies on this website.
By continuing to use this site without changing your cookie settings,
you agree that you are happy to accept our privacy policy
and for us to access our cookies on your device.
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)