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Compilation of British War Efforts, 1914-1918.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marching bands.
- Military parades.
- Motor vehicles.
- Politicians.
- Speeches, addresses, etc.
- Western Front (World War (1914-1918)).
- Great Britain. Army.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (2 minutes, 27 seconds)) : silent, black and white.
- Place of Publication:
- [Great Britain] : Topical Film Company, [between 1911 and 1930]
- Summary:
- Footage of Lord Kitchener visiting New Army soldiers in France in February 1916. Footage of Australian soldiers of the 2nd Division in bush hats march past. Footage of Gurkhas of the 7th (Meerut) Division on the march in the pouring rain. Footage of Lloyd George addressing a Canadian division at Aldershot from a car, with Sir Sam Hughes watching and many reporters recording the speech. Footage of Highlanders led by a pipe band march through an English village in 1916 is contrasted with an apparently unending marching column of 1918 veterans in their shrapnel helmets, typical of the current British Army. Footage of Sir Douglas Haig sitting with A J Balfour on a bench in Versailles.
- Notes:
- Archive title.
- Issue number: Unknown.
- Series: Topical Budget.
- With intertitles.
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