HM KING GEORGE V INSPECTS AMERICAN TROOPS [Main Title]

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  • Title: HM KING GEORGE V INSPECTS AMERICAN TROOPS [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 448
  • Other titles: AMERICAN TROOPS ON BRITISH SOIL - AN EPOCH MAKING INSPECTION BY OUR KING [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: King George V visits a training camp for American Railway Engineers at Aldershot, Saturday 28th July 1917.
  • Description: With the King are the Queen, Princess Mary and the Duke of Connaught. The King talks to the American officers and inspects the troops, who march past. Their commander is Colonel McKingstry. The King inspects the equipment and backpacks of two of the Railway Engineers, Master-Engineer L C Lebering and Master-Engineer W W Francis. Also among the King's party may be Winston Churchill. The King leaves to the cheers of the Americans. The film ends with the Americans taking part in a tug of war with a British team.
  • Alternative Title: AMERICAN TROOPS ON BRITISH SOIL - AN EPOCH MAKING INSPECTION BY OUR KING [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 448
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 448)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1917
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: HP Company (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: George V, King (person) Mary, Queen (person) Mary, Princess (Princess Royal) (person) Connaught [George] (HRH Duke of) (person) Lebering, L C (person) Francis, W W (person) McKingstry (Colonel) (person) Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer (person) United States Army & American Expeditionary Force (regiment/service) United States Army & Railway Engineers (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: delegations, British international - state (object name) equipment, United States - personal: pack (object name) society, British military - friendship (object name) society, United States military - friendship (object name) recreation, British military - sport: tug of war (object name) recreation, United States military - sport: tug of war (object name) 31/3(41) (event) Aldershot, Hampshire, 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: 211 ft; Running time: 4 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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