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The Capture of Messines

Item number (ISN):

18426

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1917

Item number (ISN):

18426

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

LOMBARD

Accession:

1969-0030

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1917

Release date:

1917-07

Production company:

Topical Film Company

Production credit:

producer, William F Jury; photography, H C Raymond

Sponsor:

War Office Cinema Committee

Description:

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Sports and horse-show of 15th (Scottish) Division, which took no part in the Battle of Messines, at Liencourt, Western Front, 13 May 1917.~British preparations and conduct of the Battle of Messines, Western Front, 5-12 June 1917. Men of the Australian 3rd Division, probably 4th Brigade, 13th (New South Wales) Battalion, inspecting from an observation tower the scale model of the battlefield laid out near Scherpenberg, about the size of a croquet lawn. The preliminary bombardment for the battle on 5 June filmed from the Australian positions across the Douve River valley. A gunner FOO on the edge of Ploegsteert Wood using a field telephone. The dirt road from Ploegsteert to Messines on 11 June, with shells bursting on the ridge in the distance. A few walking wounded, stretcher bearers and a water cart come up the track away from the battle and ammunition mules are led towards it. A few men of 25th Division (?) rest in the areas in mud-holes. The crater left by one of the nineteen large mines blown in the attack, filmed from above and the bottom of the crater on 11 June. The ruins of Messines itself, taken by the New Zealand Division, with trenches still being consolidated. The ruins of Wyschaete village, with the wood on its left, probably filmed on 8 June. A battalion of 16th (Irish) Division marches back to its rest area at Locre where it is greeted by its Left Out of Battle (LOOB) contingent. Some of the men wash in a nearby duck pond. two more marching columns led by their band return to their rest areas, probably 7th or 8th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, and the 6th Royal Irish Rifles. A posed shot of Major-General O S W Nugent with his staff of 36th (Ulster) Division, followed by posed groups of officers and men of the division. A group of soldiers from 8th or 9th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers clowning for the camera with captured trophies in a rest area near Dranoutre. Men of the 7th Battalion, the Royal Irish Rifles who served with Major William Redmond MP in their rest area. Redmond's grave at the hospice in Locre tended by two nuns. <29mn>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. Description from the Imperial War Museum Catalogue Volume 1, IWM 197.~2. The only attempt by the War Office Cinema Committee to return to the big battle format of films, on a smaller scale, after dropping it in spring 1917.~3. The film does not provide a clear idea of the course of the battle.

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Vault ISN:

16016

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-1205
N-1206

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

16017

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-0034
7301-0035

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

N-1205
N-1206

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

16018

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-0032
7301-0033

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

N-1205
N-1206

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

16019

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8103-0368
8103-0369

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

7301-0032
7301-0033

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

181680

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9202-0003

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9202-0003

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

To be Determined / À déterminer

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