AUSTRALIANS AT VILLERS BRETONNEUX [Main]


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  • Anno: 1918
  • Durata: 19 mins
  • Descrizione: The village was captured at night, the remains are shown on the following morning, 25 April, with troops of 4th Australian Division moving through. A mortar team removes camouflage from a 9.45-inch 'flying pig' mortar, sponges it out and fires it. Two 6-inch mortars are also fired. Behind the lines men of the Transport sponge down their horses beside a stream. Soldiers of 2nd Australian Division assemble from a hayloft and fasten on their equipment, then form up and march away. An Infantry section trains with a bangalore torpedo, using it to blow a hole through wire entanglements, which the men then rush through, fanning out at once. A reserve trench being dug in the rear areas. Sappers build a wooden bridge from freshly-chopped logs which they shape on a buzz-saw in a sawmill. A distant view of smoke over a heavily wooded valley, possibly Villers-Bretonneux. Australian wounded being brought out of the fighting by German prisoners (acting as Red Cross auxiliaries) and being loaded onto horse and motor ambulances. German prisoners outside an Australian YMCA in the rear areas. More prisoners marching down a road. The GOC Australian Corps, General Sir John Monash (back to camera) addresses his troops.
    Mixed genuine material of the village of Villers-Bretonneux after its capture by Australian forces 24-25 April and Australian training exercises, Western Front, 1918.
  • Parole chiave: EFG1914 / World War I / Monash, John / Australian Army, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd Division / Australian Army, Australian Imperial Force, 4th Division / weapons, British - mortar: 9.45-inch & [Australian] / weapons, British - mortar: 6-inch & [Australian] / combat, Australian - mortar bombardment / training, Australian military - combat / combat [simulated], Australian / weapons, British - demolition: bangalore torpedo & [Australian] / prisoners of war, German - movement / casualties, Australian wounded - battlefield / equipment, Australian military - engineering: buzzsaw / buildings, Australian - institutional: YMCA / 01/3(4-15).8 / Villers-Bretonneux, Somme, France
  • Fonte esterna: Imperial War Museums
  • Diritti: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Colori: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound

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