THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT [Main Title]

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  • Title: THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 389
  • Other titles: THE BRITISH REGIMENTS [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: 1st Battalion, the Cheshire Regiment, in rear areas of the Western Front, autumn 1917.
  • Description: The battalion marches past its senior officer (face not visible, possibly not the commanding officer) led by its band. Battalion rations are brought up in two-man containers and stew is shovelled from these into the men's mess tins. The men sit among flowers at the edge of a wood, talking and eating. A paper-seller makes his rounds among them. A portrait shot of Private T A Jones VC serving with the battalion.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918-01
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Cinema Committee (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Jones, T A (person) British Army, Cheshire Regiment, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: operations, British military - domestic (object name) society, British military - routine (object name) journalism and record, British - press (object name) 01/3(4-15).7 (event) France (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 295 ft; Running time: 5 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Title: this is taken from the shotsheet Summary: see also IWM 388 and the rest of the series Remarks: valueless as a record of a specific battalion, consisting of a series of uninteresting stockshots
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 389

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