Summary: British rough material of the Battle of Amiens, Western Front, August 1918.
Description: Highland troops (possibly London Scottish of 56th Division) display captured German 76mm wheeled mortars with detachable trail pieces. A British column of veterans in shirtsleeves, possibly also of 56th Division, marches through a damaged village street. Further up the street a Mk IV Male supply tank marked "BAGGAGE" is trapped in a traffic jam. In open marshy ground a Mk V Female tank is stuck and has a hawser passed over it before being pulled out by another Mk V Female. A concert party, including a 'gypsy' violinist and a pierrot group, plays to troops from an improvised outdoor stage. A continuation of the tank being hauled out of the marsh, using its unditching beam to help. US Infantry, probably of 33rd Division, resting and waving at the camera. A marching column of Highlanders moving over open country. Two British soldiers, in a wrecked building, display for the camera two different types of captured German machine gun, the 08 pattern Maxim and the 08/15 pattern Bergmann. More US troops of 33rd Division, moving in extended single file over rolling grassland, possibly on a route march.
Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
Topical Film Company (Production company)
Bassill, F A (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, London Regiment, Bn 1/14 (regiment/service)
United States Army & American Expeditionary Force (regiment/service)
United States Army & Div 33 (regiment/service)
British Army, Tank Corps (regiment/service)
Keywords: weapons, German - gun: 77mm field gun & [captured] (object name)
armour, British - tank: Tank Mark V Female (object name)
armour, British - tank: Tank Mark IV Supply (object name)
recreation, British military - theatre (object name)
weapons, German - smallarm: Maxim machine gun & [captured] (object name)
weapons, German - smallarm: Bergmann 08/15 machine gun & [captured] (object name)
operations, United States military - sortie (object name)
operations, British military - movement: march (object name)
01/3(4-15).92 [1918 Amiens] (event)
Somme, France (geography)
