Title:INSPECTION OF VOLUNTEER REGIMENTS AT BEDFORD, MARCH 1918, BY FIELD MARSHAL VISCOUNT FRENCH [Main Title]
Film Number:IWM 174
Other titles:
Summary: Field Marshal Viscount French's inspection of the Volunteer Training Corps battalions of Number Nine District, Eastern Command, 10 March 1918.
Description: French as GOC Home Forces with the VTC battalions commanded by Brigadier-General W G Carter. French is on foot with his staff. Firstly he inspects a battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment drawn up on parade, addresses the officers and presents an award to a private. Then he and his staff wait on a suburban road as the four battalions of the district, from the Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Herefordshire and Huntingdonshire regiments, march past. A number of the men wear civilian clothes or New Army navy-blue greatcoats instead of khaki. The film ends with a Union Jack fluttering in a breeze.
Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
Raymond, H C (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: French, John Denton Pinkstone (person)
Carter, William G (person)
British Army, Volunteer Training Corps (regiment/service)
British Army, Eastern Command (regiment/service)
British Army, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (regiment/service)
British Army, Northamptonshire Regiment (regiment/service)
British Army, Herefordshire Regiment (regiment/service)
British Army, Huntingdonshire Regiment (regiment/service)
Keywords: delegations, British national - military (object name)
equipment, British - personal: greatcoat (New Army blue) (object name)
31/3(41) (event)
GB, England & Bedford area, Beds <Number Nine District, Eastern Command> (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: 513 ft; Running time: 9 mins
