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Other titles:THE BRITISH REGIMENTS [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Possibly 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, in the rear areas of the Western Front, autumn 1917.
Description: Opening with a close-up profile of a private of the regiment, showing the shoulder-title "Royal Berks" very clearly. A platoon walking past a damaged building. A posed group of NCOs and warrant officers who have been decorated. Two small groups of the battalion officers. Men lining up outside a building to draw "wet rations" (beer) from a barrel. Sections practise Lewis machine gun drill, using six men to a gun in rotation. Other sections practise bayonet fighting and gas alarm drill. The battalion band marches down a street. The men of the transport section ride some of their horses or mules to a billet area where a vet bandages the leg of a very placid "wounded" horse. The men use a machine to cut chaff for the horses and carry nosebags out to them. The transport camp shows the first stages of a semi-permanent wooden building being built.
Alternative Title:THE BRITISH REGIMENTS [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Cinema Committee (Production sponsor)
Topical Film Company (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Berkshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion (regiment/service)
Keywords: operations, British military - routine (object name)
society, British military - sustenance (object name)
training, British military - weapons: machine gun (object name)
weapons, British - smallarm: Lewis machine gun (object name)
training, British military - combat: bayonet (object name)
equipment, British military - personal: gasmask (small box respirator) (object name)
animals, mammals: horse & [casualties] (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: English
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 493 ft; Running time: 8 mins