Collection search - In Action with our Canadian Troops : [excerpt] = [With the 5th Infantry Battalion from Saskatchewan] = With the Canadian Force
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Record information – Brief In Action with our Canadian Troops : [excerpt] = [With the 5th Infantry Battalion from Saskatchewan] = With the Canadian Force
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1916/1918 ?Item number (ISN):234369Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:GRAPHIC CONSULTANTS LTD.Accession:1972-0105Media:FilmPart:1 of 1Production date:1916/1918 ?Production company:British Topical Committee for War Films ?Production credit:photography, Geoffry H. Malins; Edward G. Tong ?Sponsor:War Office ?Description:The film begins with, "With the 5th Battalion Canadian Infantry from Saskatchewan." "The trenches often cave in." 5th (Saskatchewan) Battalion, 1st Division, repairs its own trenches and stops for a meal. "The mid-day meal." A soldier tends to a brazier in a trench. Troops eating, smoking. "Standing to arms - awaiting orders." Soldiers in rain gear with rifles.~"At 6.20 in the morning the order was given for our men to advance - The 'Tanks' move forward over wire entanglements." Several shots of tank, 'A17'. "Machine guns cover our advance." Machine gun position. "Enemy shrapnel cannot stop the lads from the Western Dominion." Long shot of troops along the horizon. <3mn 44s>Language:Silent with English intertitlesNotes:Detailed holdings information: -
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