Title:COLONEL HARRY PORTER'S TOUR OF FIRST WORLD WAR BATTLEFIELDS IN FRANCE, 1963: VIMY RIDGE, THIEPVAL [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 4399
Other titles:AMATEUR FILM BY HARRY J PORTER [Alternative Title]
Summary: Amateur film shot by Colonel Harry Porter of 245 (Ulster) Regiment Royal Artillery (after renaming in 1955) shows towns, battlefields and memorials visited with Captain Roland Sinton and Colonel Jack Bailie on pilgrimage tour of First World War sites in Northern France: Dunkirk, Ypres, Menin Gate, Canadian front line at Vimy Ridge and Memorial, with family where billeted in 1940, Arras, Thiepval Memorial and Helen's Tower on Somme, showing route taken by Ulster Division on 1 July 1916, ending with sights of Paris.
Description:
Alternative Title:AMATEUR FILM BY HARRY J PORTER [Alternative Title]
Colour:Colour
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Object_Number:MGH 4399
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:1963
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Porter, Harry J (Production individual)
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Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour
Sound format: Silent
Soundtrack language: None
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 16mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 298 ft; Running time: 13 mins
