A LA GLOIRE DU TROUPIER BELGE 2 PARTIE [Main Title]

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  • Title: A LA GLOIRE DU TROUPIER BELGE 2 PARTIE [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 1051
  • Other titles: TER EERE VAN DEN BELGISCHEN SOLDAT 2 DEEL [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: Belgian film of general activity by their own forces in Flanders, Western Front, 1916-1917.
  • Description: Soldiers start digging a trench system and wiring up the positions. Finned mortar bombs for a 58mm Crapouillot (?) are carried forward into a front-line trench and used to bombard the German positions. A patrol in a flooded area. A trench system near damaged buildings. A group of soldiers leaves wattle dugouts in response to an alert. A sniper takes aim and falls back wounded (acted ?). His friend calls for a stretcher and he is carried back through the trench system to safety. A round observation balloon is inflated. A 75mm field gun fires at a high angle. Two observers bail out from an observation balloon as it bursts into flames from an air attack. Aircraft dogfight in the sky. A soldier with a trench periscope gives the alert and a bugler blows a gas warning. The men put on 1916 pattern gas hoods. Infantry practise an open order charge on a training ground beside their tents. A 75mm bombards the front line. A heavy gun in a fortress cupola joins in.
  • Alternative Title: TER EERE VAN DEN BELGISCHEN SOLDAT 2 DEEL [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 1051
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 1051)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1919
  • Production Country: Belgium
  • Production Details:
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Belgian Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: operations, Belgian military - routine (object name) engineering, military, Belgian (object name) defences, Belgian - emplacement: fortress (object name) weapons, French - mortar: 58mm Crapouillot & [Belgian] (object name) demolition, Belgian - denial (object name) combat, Belgian - artillery bombardment (object name) destruction, Belgian military - area: artillery bombardment (object name) medical, Belgian military - emergency (object name) aircraft, Belgian - balloon: observation balloon (object name) aircraft, Belgian - balloon: observation kite balloon (object name) weapons, French - gun: 75mm field gun & [Belgian] (object name) equipment, Belgian air - personal: parachute (object name) combat, Belgian air - anti-balloon [D] (object name) equipment, Belgian - personal: trench periscope (object name) equipment, Belgian - personal: gasmask (gas hood) (object name) training, Belgian military - combat (object name) destruction, Belgian: flood (object name) combat, Belgian air [D] (object name) 01/3(4-15) (event) Belgium (geography) Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: French
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 691 ft; Running time: 12 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 1051

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