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IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM

1997-0507

Film

Our Heroic Canadian Brothers

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1918

War Office

Pathe

British film of the Canadian Corps forces in Britain and on the Western Front, 1917-1918.~A parade by Canadian 207th Battalion, led by Lieutenant-Colonel C.W. McLean, to lay up their colours in Westminster Abbey, probably just prior to the battalion's absorption into 6th Reserve Battalion on 2 June 1917. Canadian soldiers in France parading to vote in the general election on 17 December 1917. A village, probably Vimy area, being shelled, filmed from some distance away. Canadians, probably of 3rd Division, holding a pay parade in a shell-damaged village. A brigade paraded to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation on 1 July 1917 with a service, watched by Lieutenant-General Currie, the Canadian Corps commander, and General Horne, commander of First Army. Rubble and remains of the village of Vimy; a company of 42nd Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada) returns from the village. <12mn 30s>

Silent with English intertitles

libre

V1 9801-0002

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