Summary: Fragmentary film of Canadian troops on the Western Front, probably during the Battle of Arras, April 1917.
Description: The Duke of Connaught is taken on a conducted tour over an old part of a battlefield (this visit took place on 17 March). Canadians in a rear position relax and smoke in dugouts. A tented rest camp. A long-range view of houses being shelled. More shellfire, possibly on a training range. Soldiers prepare to take heavy loads of ammunition and equipment on their backs forward from the rear areas through the trenches. Pan over an old battlefield with half-destroyed buildings. A tented camp with Canadian gunners exercising their horses. Men of the Tank Corps do maintenance work on their Mark IV tanks; one man draws an elaborate Maple Leaf on the nose of his tank.
Production Details: Canadian War Records Office (Production sponsor)
Topical Film Company (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Connaught [George] (HRH Duke of) (person)
British Army, Tank Corps (regiment/service)
Canadian Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: combat, Canadian - artillery bombardment [D] (object name)
operations, Canadian military - routine (object name)
supplies, Canadian, movement [FA] - misc: [+] (object name)
operations, British military - maintenance (object name)
destruction, French military - area: artillery bombardment (object name)
01/3(4-15) (event)
01/3(4-15).63 (?) (event)
France (geography)
Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France (geography)
