Title:VISIT OF SPANISH GENERALS TO THE WESTERN FRONT [Main Title]
Film Number:IWM 115
Other titles:
Summary: Spanish generals being shown over the British sector of the Western Front, March-April 1917.
Description: At Fourth Army headquarters, Querrieu Château, on 15 April 1917 General Henry Rawlinson shows the visiting generals some captured German trench mortars and a new Mark I Female tank. Leading the Spanish party are General Primo de Rivera, General Aranaz and also Brigadier-General Martinez Anido. After this comes the visit of the generals to the old Somme battlefield in March, escorted by Colonel Hulton Wilson. They drive up the Albert-Bapaume road, getting out at La Boisselle to tour the battlefield. The film jumps twice, to the debris of Le Sars and to the party standing on the Butte de Warlencourt. The generals go on to inspect the veterinary hospital at Abbéville, watch British and Indian Cavalry (either 4th or 5th Cavalry Division) practising close-order charges on the training ground at Rouen, and pose beside the canteen at No 6 Veterinary Hospital in Rouen.
Production Details: War Office Cinema Committee (Production sponsor)
Topical Film Company (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Rawlinson, Henry Seymour (person)
Hulton Wilson (Colonel) (person)
Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Miguel (person)
Aranaz (General) (person)
Martinez Anido, Severiano (person)
British Army, Army 4 (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Cavalry, 4 (?) (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Cavalry, 5 (?) (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Army Veterinary Corps, 6th Veterinary Hospital (regiment/service)
Indian Army, Div, Cavalry, 1 (?) (regiment/service)
Spanish Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: animals, mammals: horse & [casualties] & [-] (object name)
buildings, British - military: headquarters (Fourth Army) (object name)
delegations, Spanish international - military (object name)
destruction, French military - area (object name)
armour, British - tank: Tank Mark I Female (object name)
training, British military (object name)
01/3(4-15).6 (event)
Querrieu, Somme, France (geography)
La Boisselle, Somme, France (geography)
Butte-de-Warlencourt, Somme, France (geography)
Le Sars, Pas-de-Calais, France (geography)
Abbeville, Somme, France (geography)
Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France (geography)
