Title:PATHE SUPER GAZETTE (1926) - MR WINSTON CHURCHILL INTERESTED SPECTATOR AT ALDERSHOT COMMAND MANOEUVRES [Main Title]
Film Number:IWM 1064-01b
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Summary: Newsreel item on Winston Churchill, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, visiting Army manoeuvres at Tidworth, summer 1926.
Description: Churchill is escorted past a parade of 5th Battalion, Royal Tank Corps, drawn up with their Vickers Medium Mark I tanks. Also in the parade are Carden-Loyd Mark IV tankettes and Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost armoured cars. For the exercise the Vickers Mediums cross a bridge at high speed while Churchill watches. Following the tanks are two Infantry half-tracks of the Burford-Kegresse type and two Birch guns - self-propelled tracked 18-pounder field guns of IX Brigade.
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer (person)
British Army, Royal Tank Corps, 5th Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery, 9th Field Brigade (regiment/service)
Keywords: training, British military - combat (object name)
training, British military - specialist: tanks (object name)
delegations, British national - political (object name)
armour, British - tank: Vickers Medium Mark I (object name)
armour, British - carrier: Carden-Loyd (object name)
armour, British - halftrack: Burford-Kegresse (object name)
armour, British - SPG: 18-pounder Birch gun (object name)
Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, UK (geography)
Tidworth area, Wiltshire, England, UK (geography)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Silent
Soundtrack language: None
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 120 ft; Running time: 2 mins