Title:PATHE GAZETTE (1925) - BRITISH ARMY MANOEUVRES : 50,000 troops take part in 'Great War of 1925' [Main Title]
Film Number:IWM 1064-03e
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Summary: Newsreel item on Army manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain, summer 1925.
Description: Infantry march through the centre of a village, and out along the wet roads into the countryside. Back in the village signallers rig telephone wires on a barber's pole. Out on the plain lancers trot past followed by heavily camouflaged armoured cars (possibly Austin). A gun battery is using a farm as a base. A mounted signaller trails a telephone wire out along a road, behind a line-laying wagon. At the farm Royal Fusiliers have their rum ration served. The manoeuvres are between a force from Mercia representing strength and one from Wessex representing mobility.
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
British Army, lancers (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Fusiliers1 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Engineers (regiment/service)
Keywords: training, British military - combat (object name)
communications, British military - electronic (object name)
transport, British military - animal special: line-laying wagon (object name)
society, British military - sustenance (object name)
Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, UK (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: 205 ft; Running time: 4 mins
