Summary: British rough material of the Battle of Amiens and the Advance to the Hindenburg Line, Western Front, August 1918.
Description: A column of RFA limbers reloads from a dump of 18-pounder shells beside a track before moving forward (possibly near Harlincourt ?). A group of soldiers, possibly Royal Scots Fusiliers, walks in loose order towards the camera through the dust of a track. Transport and RFA limbers move past Achiet-le-Grand station, which has two captured German 150mm howitzers outside it. Near Sapignies an officer directs the fire of two 6-inch Mark VII guns, and the map is re-set for indirect fire. The two guns are each hooked up to their two-wheel trail limbers and towed to a new position by Holt tractors. British troops dig in the remains of a wood, clearing the trees, not far from Bailleul. The main square at Bailleul consists only of an open space surrounded by rubble. Meteren, just south of Ypres, is in a similar condition. Near Merville, a girder bridge has been blown up and has collapsed into the cutting below it.
Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
Topical Film Company (Production company)
Bassill, F A (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Artillery, Royal Field Artillery (regiment/service)
British Army, Scots Fusiliers, Royal (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery, Royal Garrison Artillery (regiment/service)
Keywords: supplies, British, storage [RA] - munitions (object name)
supplies, British, movement [RA] - munitions (object name)
transport, British military - animal (object name)
weapons, German - gun: 150mm howitzer & [captured] (object name)
weapons, British - gun: 6-inch Mark VII (object name)
equipment, British military - fire control: artillery targetting map (object name)
transport, British military - prime mover: Holt tractor (object name)
destruction, French military - area: artillery bombardment (object name)
buildings, French - commercial: railway station (object name)
01/3(4-15).92 [1918 Amiens] (event)
01/3(4-15).94 (event)
Achiet-le-Grand, Pas-de-Calais, France (geography)
Sapignies, Pas-de-Calais, France (geography)
Bailleul, Somme, France (geography)
Meteren, West Flanders, Belgium (geography)
Merville, Nord, France (geography)
