The Making of an Officer: with the Artists Rifles at the Front, Official Pictures of the British Army
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The Making of an Officer: with the Artists Rifles at the Front, Official Pictures of the British Army
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| Author |
War Office
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| Notes |
British basic officer training in the Artists Rifles, St-Omer, Western Front, December 1915. Drill and musketry instruction. On sentry training British and French sentries together stop a staff car to check the occupants. Out in the country, the trainees cut brushwood for hurdles. They learn how to make bridges from tree trunks and rafts from gas capes filled with straw. They repair trench systems, and construct wire entanglements. An officer teaches them the elements of map reading. After a final address by the commanding officer they leave the training battalion in a bus of 16th AUX MT Company. On arrival at an officer cadet school they are instructed in using and stripping the Vickers machine gun and throwing hand grenades. The BTCFWF symbol appears on this film as a single negative flashframe. Summary: by this date the Artists Rifles, or 1/28th (County of London) Battalion of the London Regiment, enjoyed a unique status not as a fighting unit but as a holding battalion entirely for men undergoing officer training in France. This film was subject to censorship at GHQ France.
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| Item date |
31 January 1916
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| Creation place |
St. Omer, France
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| Content | |
| Cataloguer |
Alisa Miller
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| Filename |
IWMFILM203-low.mp4
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| Copyright |
The Imperial War Museum Film Archive
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| Digital repository | |
| Collection ID |
IWM 203
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| Repository name |
Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive
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| Repository address line1 |
Imperial War Museum
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| Repository address line2 |
Lambeth Road
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| Repository address line3 |
London
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| Repository address Zip code |
SE1 6HZ
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| Repository address country |
UK
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| Publication editor |
Unknown
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| Producer |
The British Topical Committee for War Films
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| Cameramen |
Tong, E. G.
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Collection
Citation
“The Making of an Officer: with the Artists Rifles at the Front, Official Pictures of the British Army,” by War Office. The Imperial War Museum Film Archive via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed April 26, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/5511.
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