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Summary: General views of the area around Ypres, Western Front, probably 1917.
Description: I. German prisoners escorted by Yeomanry over an iron bridge. A metre-gauge railway train holding a platoon of the Queen's Regiment. A repair workshop for guns and howitzers. A group of soldiers shaving in a field of horses. Royal Engineers in combat gear coming up a trench. Soldiers clearing mud from a narrow gauge railway track. Guns, hidden by scrim netting, firing, followed by mules being led past them. A poor quality shot of a 6-inch howitzer (?). A party of Durham Light Infantry falling in by a roadside. Men of the King's Royal Rifle Corps and Royal Engineers digging a trench. Soldiers eating in the open. A chaplain assisting in the treatment of a man with a wounded arm. German prisoners sitting with British stretcher-bearers. II. The film ends with a poor quality scene of German prisoners carrying Australians on stretchers to the rear, from IWM 158 FIGHTING IN FLANDERS.
Production Details: War Office Cinema Committee (Production sponsor)
Topical Film Company (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Kent Regiment, West Royal (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Engineers (regiment/service)
British Army, yeomanry (regiment/service)
British Army, Durham Light Infantry (regiment/service)
British Army, King's Royal Rifle Corps (regiment/service)
Australian Army, Australian Imperial Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: defences, British - emplacement: trenches (object name)
engineering, military, British (object name)
society, British military - sustenance (object name)
society, British military - hygiene (object name)
weapons, British - gun: 6-inch 26cwt howitzer & [-] (object name)
transport, British military - rail: narrow gauge train (object name)
religion, Christianity - military, British (object name)
medical, British military - emergency (object name)
prisoners of war, German - movement (object name)
01/3(4-15).74 (event)
Menin Road, Ypres, West Flanders, 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: 665 ft; Running time: 12 mins
