Title:HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY COMPILATION [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 2874
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Summary: Four items from the late 1930s showing activities of the Honourable Artillery Company Royal Artillery, a territorial unit.
Description: I. "Batteries in Camp at Tidworth Pennings." Dated 1937. Narrated sequence with sound (not newsreel). Horses of artillery company are prepared and shod, saddles and bridles polished. Guns are also prepared. Horses are ridden into position and harnessed to their limbers. Two batteries ready to move. Battery commander at observation point; range taker and signaller at work. Preparation and firing of guns; limbers travelling at speed and moving into new position where they are fired again . "A" Battery led by Major Macdiarmid marches past the CRA (Colonel). Afterwards, horses are fed, watered and tended to. Soldier wash and brush up before drinking beer. (Some brief gaps in sound.)
II. "Business Men Mount Guard at Buckingham Palace." (Pathe Gazette No 38/55, 11 July 1938) Honourable Artillery Company take part in the ceremony.
III. "Royal Review by HM King George VI (Captain-General of the HAC) 19th July 1937." Narrated coverage of the ceremony; soundtrack is poorly edited. Footage shows His Majesty reviewing the regiment, parade of the Company with their horse-drawn gun limbers as King George takes the salute.
IV. "Garden Party and Pageant, Armoury House, 10th July 1937". Short narrated account of the garden party at the Honouarble Artillery Company's headquarters. Cricket match in the style of 1725. Regiment inspected by the Lord Mayor of London before a pageant with various historical re-enactments and demonstrations. The regiment, preceded by regimental band, leaves Armoury House to march to St Pauls's Cathedral. (Again, this sequence has a poorly edited soundtrack.)
