SONS OF OUR EMPIRE. EPISODE 5

Rights Information
Year
1917
Reference
F246428
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1917
Reference
F246428
Media type
Moving image
Series
Sons Of Our Empire
Place of production
United Kingdom
Categories
Newsreel
Production company
War Office Cinema Committee, Topical Film Company
Credits
Producer: William F Jury
Camera: Geoffrey H Malins

(Reel 9) A bombardment in progress. Mk I tanks move up. Fatigue parties (described as "doctors") move forwards. Prisoners are brought in and the captured area mopped up. The German Crown Prince's headquarters at Péronne shows shell damage. A Guards Division dressing station. The formal search of prisoners by Australians, "the Intelligence officer returns an Iron Cross to a prisoner". The troops return to their rest camps. A chaplain takes a message from a wounded man on a stretcher. Tanks and soldiers return. (Reel 10) The remains of Trones Wood and the unidentifiable rubble of villages. German dead in their trenches. A ditched Mk I tank. "Australians", "London Irish" and "Civil Service Rifles" (of 56th Division) return. An open air funeral service, "the inevitable price of victory". Mk I tanks of 'D' Company H/MGC being serviced and maintained. Aircraft return from their observation flights. An observation kite balloon lands. Men of 35th (Bantam) Division and the New Zealand Division rest. A final shot of Prime Minister Lloyd George on a balcony with H Samuel Homer Stacy, with a policy speech: "our sword was not lightly drawn, and will never be sheathed until our terms - Restitution, Reparation and Guarantees - are fully assured".

Catalogue entry from Imperial War Museum: http://film.iwmcollections.org.uk/record/index/45083