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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.
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)
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 126 ft; Running time: 2 mins
HD Media:Yes
Notes: Title: this is taken from the shotsheet.
Production: most probably British official film, but may have been taken by cameramen from the Dominions.