Recherche dans la collection - The Battle of the Ancre : [incomplete]

LOMBARD

1969-0030

Film

4 of 5

1916

1917-01

British Topical Committee

producer, William F Jury; photography, Geoffrey H Malins; J B McDowell

War Office

British operations in the Somme offensive between the Battle of Flers-Courcelette and the Battle of the Ancre, Western Front, September-November 1916.~Material from various phases of the Somme offensive without regard for logical or chronological continuity. The film opens with the unloading of supply trains and soldiers on the march to the battlefield. 18-pounder guns, 6-inch and 8-inch howitzers fire under the control of battery officers and forward observation officers. Tanks and Irish Highlanders attacking Martinpuich (possibly faked). Scenes of ruins and a field dressing station after the battle. A German colonel captured with his staff on 13 November. Men of 63rd (Royal Naval) Division rest after capturing Beaumont Hamel. General views of the Ancre battlefield and troops cleaning up and resting in the aftermath. The final sequence is of silhouetted supply columns moving on up the road. <53mn>

Silent with English intertitles

Libre

V1 9202-0003
V1 2004-10-0216

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

No donor restrictions.

Under copyright until 2007.

Original copyright owner: the British government~Copyright probably now rests with the Imperial War Museum.~There is a chance that the copyright has remained with the British government.

To be Determined / À déterminer