WITH A CANADIAN BRIGADE AT YPRES [Main Title]


  • Title: WITH A CANADIAN BRIGADE AT YPRES [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 143
  • Other titles:
  • Summary: I. Canadian rear areas during the Third Battle of Ypres, Western Front, late 1917. II. The visit of Cardinal Bourne to an Australian unit on the Western Front, late 1917.
  • Description: Isolated Canadian soldiers walking over very muddy ground at Ypres between water-filled craters. The cameraman's comments are on the shotsheet: "Took a few pieces of wounded and prisoners coming back over bad ground. I do not think the film will be very good. Conditions were all against any good results. Could get no help - runners being killed or wounded almost every time they went out. I was at advanced Brigade GHQ". The Cardinal arrives by car and walks past a military unit to a hut marked "Catholic Club - open to all", followed by the soldiers.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 143)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1917
  • Production Country: GB (?)
  • Production Details:
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Bourne (Cardinal) (person) Canadian Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force (regiment/service) Australian Army, Australian Imperial Force (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: journalism and record, British - cameraman (object name) buildings, Australian - military: club (religious) (object name) delegations, British Imperial - goodwill (object name) religion, Christianity - military, Australian (object name) 01/3(4-15).74 (event) 01/3(4-15).7 (event) Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium (geography) Belgium (geography) France (geography) mud (concept)
  • 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: 126 ft; Running time: 2 mins
  • Notes: Title: this is taken from the shotsheet. Production: most probably British official film, but may have been taken by cameramen from the Dominions.
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