GERMAN OFFENSIVE 2 [Main]


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  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 7 mins
  • Description: Three Medium A Whippet tanks of 3rd Battalion, Tank Corps, (numbers A262, A277 and A212), moving across an open field, probably not far from the road between Bray and Serre. A second scene shows the tanks moving on the road itself, being passed by an Army car and passing a light cart. The Whippets have difficulty turning off the road down a slight bank between quite widely-spaced trees, having to back and turn to get through the gap. The three continue quite rapidly over open country. On the same road a company of Highland troops, possibly Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, resting by the roadside, eating bread and jam. There are several 'old soldier' types among them. A final scene shows British soldiers escorting German prisoners, some with bicycles, down the same road.
    British Whippet tanks and some Infantry moving towards the battlefield, probably the Bray-Serre road, Western Front, 26 March 1918.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Royal Tank Corps, 3rd Battalion / British Army, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders / armour, British - tank: Tank Medium A Whippet & [+] / society, British military - sustenance / prisoners of war, German - movement: march / operations, British military - movement: road / 01/3(4-15).81 / Bray-Serre Road, Bray-sur-Somme, Somme, France
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Topical Film Company
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound