the DORSET REGIMENT [Main]


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  • Other title(s): [the BRITISH REGIMENTS] [Allocated Series]
  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 8 mins
  • Description: The battalion Transport section cleans and maintains the wagons (note the 'four eights' divisional sign of 32nd Division). The wagons move out through a village. In the blacksmith's yard the horses are shod. Signallers of the battalion practise semaphore. A sergeant demonstrates a signal lamp linked to a morse transmitter. The battalion drills on a beach.
    Probably 1st Battalion, the Dorsetshire Regiment, in the Nieuport area, Western Front, June-October 1917.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Div 32 / British Army, Dorsetshire Regiment, 1st Battalion / operations, British military - routine / operations, British military - maintenance / animals, mammals: horse / training, British military - specialist: signals / communications, British military - direct: semaphore / communications, British military - direct: lamp / 01/3(4-15).7 / Nieuport, West Flanders, Belgium
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Topical Film Company
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound

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