Metadata
- Title: THE KING'S ROYAL RIFLES [Main Title]
- Film Number: IWM 417
- Other titles: THE BRITISH REGIMENTS [Allocated Series Title]
- Summary: Probably 4th (but possibly 2nd) Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps, on the Western Front, autumn 1917.
- Description: The battalion on the march along a metalled road. The men march in salute past their commanding officer (indistinctly seen). The men, taken to a training field, shed their packs and practise bayonet fighting. Instruction is given in the operation of the Lewis machine gun. This is followed by physical training. A new issue is made of boots and clothing. The film ends with a half-profile portrait shot of "The Quartermaster, who has been with the battalion 25 years", most probably Lieutenant T Jones of 4th Battalion.
- Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
- Featured Period: 1914-1918
- Production Date: 1918-02
- Production Country: GB
- Production Details: War Office Cinema Committee (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company)
- Personalities, Units and Organisations: Jones, T (person) British Army, King's Royal Rifle Corps, 4th Battalion (regiment/service)
- Keywords: operations, British military - routine (object name) training, British military (object name) weapons, British - smallarm: Lewis machine gun (object name) 01/3(4-15).7 (event) France (geography) Belgium (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: 468 ft; Running time: 8 mins
- Notes: Summary: see also IWM 388 and the rest of the series Remarks: as with the rest of the series, this conveys no sense of an individual battalion, consisting simply of a series of stockshots. But in this case some of the stockshots are of higher quality than average
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