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IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM

1997-0507

Film

The Canadian Victory at Courcelette

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1917

1917

Canadian Official Films

photography, F.O. Bovill

War Office Cinema Committee for Canadian War Records Office

Canadian soldiers voting in the Canadian elections while on the Western Front, 17 December 1917.~Slightly jumbled film of the Canadian forces in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette. No tanks appear. Western Front, September 1916.~Alberta basilica, mid-1916. The Canadian 6th Brigade, 2nd Division, led by Brigadier-General H.D.B.Ketchen (past German prisoners) towards the battlefield, halts to rest at La Boisselle crossroads before entering the trench system. A kite balloon is raised to direct fire from 9.2-inch howitzers. A BE2d of the RCF is bombed-up with 112-pound, 40-pound, 20-pound and phosphorous bombs (shown in detail) before taking off. Ground crews signal to the aircraft with identification panels. The aircraft directs the fire of a 4.5-inch howitzer battery. Carrier pigeons, taken forward, return to a mobile loft. <24mn>

Silent with English intertitles

libre

V1 9801-0002

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