THE KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY [Main Title]

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  • Title: THE KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 391
  • Other titles: THE BRITISH REGIMENTS [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: A battalion of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in the rear areas of the Western Front, autumn 1917.
  • Description: A battalion manoeuvre over ploughed fields with dispersed soldiers and mounted officers (filmed in long shot). Men of the battalion rest and smoke wearing field equipment. A Lewis machine gun team gives a demonstration. A second group demonstrates Swedish Drill (PT), a third group bayonet fighting, a fourth the speedy donning of gasmasks and a fifth a solidarity-boosting 'trust exercise'. Two field cookers arrive and stew is served to the men, who eat rather camera-consciously. The whole battalion, led by its band, marches past the camera, rifles at the trail.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918-02
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Cinema Committee (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Yorkshire Light Infantry, King's Own (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: operations, British military - routine (object name) training, British military - combat: bayonet (object name) weapons, British - smallarm: Lewis machine gun (object name) transport, British military - animal special: field kitchen (object name) society, British military - sustenance (object name) equipment, British military - personal: gasmask (small box respirator) (object name) 01/3(4-15).7 (event) France (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: English Subtitle language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 573 ft; Running time: 10 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Summary: see also IWM 388 and the rest of the series Remarks: valueless as a record of a specific battalion, consisting of stockshots and uninformative captions
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 391

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