SCENES ON THE MENIN ROAD [Main Title]

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  • Title: SCENES ON THE MENIN ROAD [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 127
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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.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1917
  • Production Country: GB
  • 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
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Summary: see also IWM 158.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 127

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