GERMAN PRISONERS - SCENES AT LA BOZELLE (sic) [Main Title]

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  • Title: GERMAN PRISONERS - SCENES AT LA BOZELLE (sic) [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 349
  • Other titles: SONS OF OUR EMPIRE (related scenes) [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: Mixed stock material of German prisoners of the British, Western Front, 1916-1918.
  • Description: A column of prisoners, "Prussians and Bavarians" moving over rough ground with an escort. A body search of prisoners in a trench. German prisoners help British RAMC men with British and German wounded at a dressing station. Parties of four British stretcher bearers, one with a head wound, carry stretcher cases to the rear, followed by British and German walking wounded. German prisoners grin at the camera. More stretcher bearers and columns of German prisoners. Maintenance work being done on tanks in a captured village. Gordon Highlanders (?) digging or reinforcing a trench line. British soldiers cleaning up trenches, "enemy trenches at La Bozelle (sic, presumably La Boisselle) after our guns had finished with them".
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 349)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1917
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details:
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps (regiment/service) British Army, Gordon Highlanders (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: prisoners of war, German - movement: [+] (object name) prisoners of war, German - reception (object name) medical, British military - emergency (object name) operations, British military - maintenance (object name) armour, British - tank: Tank Mark I Male (object name) 01/3(4-15) (event) La Boisselle, Somme, France (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 718 ft; Running time: 13 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Title: this is taken, including the error, from the shotsheet Production: possibly a post-war private compilation rather than an official film Summary: most of this material appears in the series SONS OF OUR EMPIRE, see IWM 130/01+02 to IWM 130/09+10. See also IWM 324
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 349

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    IWM 130-01+2 (SONS OF OUR EMPIRE EPISODE 1 : Winter on the Western Front [Main Title]) IWM 130-03+4 (SONS OF OUR EMPIRE EPISODE 2 : Glimpses of the British Navy in war time [Main Title]) IWM 130-05+6 (SONS OF OUR EMPIRE EPISODE 3 : the King's message to his troops [Main Title]) IWM 130-07+8 (SONS OF OUR EMPIRE EPISODE 4 : Preparations for the Great Offensive [Main Title]) IWM 130-09+10 (SONS OF OUR EMPIRE EPISODE 5 : Attacking hard [Main Title]) IWM 324 (SEPTEMBER OFFENSIVE 3 [Main Title])
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