PATHE SUPER GAZETTE (1926) - MR WINSTON CHURCHILL INTERESTED SPECTATOR AT ALDERSHOT COMMAND MANOEUVRES [Main Title]

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  • 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.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 1064-01b
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 1064-01b)
  • Featured Period: 1919-1938
  • Production Date: 1926
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Pathe (Production company)
  • 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
  • HD Media:Yes
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