WW1 France: The Battle of Ancre and Advance of the Tanks R1 of 3 | X300432-01 Footage Farm Ltd

[WWI - 1916, France: British Commonwealth Troops Fighting in Mud, Rain]
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01:00:15:00 Title: General Headquarters is responsible for the censorship of these films & allows nothing in the nature of fake to be shown. The pictures are genuine ones, taken on the battlefield.
01:00:22 Title: "On September 15th began the second phase of the great push resulting in the capture of a series of fortified villages of enormous strength, and a great number of prisoners.
01:00:34 Title: "Huge quantities of provisions are required for man and beast. - Delivering food at a railhead for distribution to various units.
01:00:40 Hay for horses & food for troops unloaded. Cutting meat w/ axes. Opening crates & listing food.
01:01:28 Flash title: “Troops moving forward”.
British troops move forward - march past on muddy road alongside trucks; on road thru cut wave hats to camera above.
01:02:15 Title re Royal Welsh Fusiliers & Australians on their way to the front”. Wearing soft caps & Australian hats. Highlanders, Scottish troops in kilts, & Royal Engineers unloading boards to line muddy trenches. Good to show mud.
01:03:25 Title re shells rolled up to gun & Germans shelling light railway. Shells rolled onto cart & pushed on rails thru mud; explosions beyond in field.
01:03:55 Title re more troops needed. Troops, some w/o helmets or w/ soft hats, past on muddy road. Shells carried on horses to forward positions. Horses knee deep in mud in rain. Men on horseback drinking coffee. Horses continue forward walking through mud & water.
01:05:44 Title re 8 inch Howitzers open attack on German 3rd line. Good shots, show recoil under camouflage netting.
01:06:09 Title re troops issued rubber thigh boots to prevent frostbite in trenches. Soldiers putting on walk.
01:06:46 Title: “Fixing detonators into Mills’ Grenades for the attack at dawn”. British (?) sitting on dry ground fitting detonators.
01:07:01 Cameronians (in Scottish caps & sweaters) loading up magazines for machine guns.
01:07:09 Title: “Men and transport pouring up to the front”. High angle / HA trucks passing massed troops.
Soldiers out of underground bunkers into rain; others carrying large shells past.
01:07:25 Soldier runs up w/ papers / orders & British guns, 6 inch Howitzers begin firing at German positions.
01:08:01 Forward observation officer in trench w/ binoculars gives range correction to man on phone, message relayed to dugout & man w/ megaphone out & calls correction. Guns fire.
01:08:30 Title re sleighs used to bring in wounded. Soldiers & horses drag on muddy road. Others pull & push loaded carts thru deep mud.
01:08:53 Title re troops ready in their dug-outs on the banks of "Ancre". Hillside w/ huts;
01:09:00 soldiers given ammunition to carry to front line.
01:09:17 TITLE: "The men receiving their rations the night before the attack. Note the shell marked ground.
Good shots troops relax in trenches & shell craters; cook kitchen wagons; eating in trench & mud.
01:09:59 Title: “Another battery of 8 in. Howitzers joins in the ‘strafe’.” Firing, officer sitting on chair above trench w/ megaphone directs range. Artillery fired.
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Battle of Ancre, Fighting; Weather; British Commonwealth Troops;

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