TOPICAL BUDGET 349-1, HONOURS FOR ANZACS AT CAMBRIDGE

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1918
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Year
1918
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F246480
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Moving image

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Series
WAR OFFICE TOPICAL BUDGET
Place of production
United Kingdom
Categories
Newsreel
Duration
00:04:19
Production company
Topical Film Company

“HONOURS FOR ANZACS AT CAMBRIDGE. Gen. Sir William Robertson with heroic Cadets.” General Sir William Robertson inspecting Australian and New Zealand officer trainees in Cambridge, April 1918.
A congregation including Robertson and the trainees comes out of King's College Chapel after a service. Robertson watches a drill demonstration on the backs at King's by the trainees, and presents decorations to some of the New Zealand trainees.

“THE HODDEN GREY. Earl of Scarborough inspects 1st. C.B. London Scottish.”
the Earl of Scarborough inspecting the reserve battalion of the London Scottish on parade in London, April 1918.

“WAR-TIME LANCASHIRE LASSIES. Munition workers’ great savings demonstration at St. Helens.” A munitions workers' fête at Saint Helens, April 1918.
The floats of the procession pass through the watching crowds of the town centre. One float is a tableau of "Peace" and one is a "Tank Bank" for the purchase of War Savings Certificates.

“TRIBUTE TO CIVILIAN HEROES. Lord Crewe presents O.B.E. medals in Green Park, London.” Lord Crewe, in Army uniform, presenting OBEs to civilians in Green Park, London, April 1918.

“YPRES TO-DAY. Around this battle-swept ruin of an ancient city the Huns are paying heavy blood toll.” Showing the remains of the Cloth Hall and the water tower, with British troops holding a scrape trench nearby, Western Front, March-April 1918.

(Descriptions sourced from the UK Imperial War Museums website)