Title:WOUNDED AND PRISONERS BEHIND THE LINES ON THE WESTERN FRONT [Allocated Title]
Film Number:IWM 409
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Summary: Wounded and prisoners behind the lines during a battle on the Western Front, possibly Arras 1917.
Description: The film opens with rolling fields, corn stacks at regular intervals. Soldiers line up for an open-air pay parade. Walking wounded come up a hill towards the camera, followed by some stretcher cases, other walking wounded (one visibly shaking - shell shock?), and German prisoners under escort. Water is given to the wounded. Some mounted Transport men also come up the slope towards the camera, and there is a steady trickle of men going in the other direction.
Production Details: War Office Cinema Committee (Production sponsor)
Topical Film Company (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: casualties, British wounded - battlefield (object name)
casualties, German wounded - battlefield (object name)
prisoners of war, German - movement (object name)
01/3(4-15).7 (?) (event)
France (geography)