Recherche dans la collection - [Canadian War Veteran - Interview]

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: KINES FROM PARC, TORONTO

1986-0810

Film

1 of 1

1963 ?

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Roll 21, Scene 6C, Take 1 of a series of interviews about the First World War. This consists of an interview of an unidentified Canadian war veteran who was a member of the 43rd Battalion. He talks about: events of August 1918; the Battle of Amiens; being taken by General Lipsett to the line held by the French; deployment of battalions and tanks; description of tanks; dangerous roads; taking the top of [Delville Wood]; weak German resistance and August 8th, 1918, the "Black Day" for the German army.~The version of this interview on 16mm magnetic track also includes comments on the August 1918 movement from north to the [Amiens] front, the movement forward to take over from the French, the secrecy of the mission, the 43rd Battalion, the lack of help from the French, the hope by the French that the allied attack would fail, the usefulness of tanks and the role of the 52nd and 116th Battalions.

English

Libre

A1 2000-11-0001

GAD 0FD547

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