Footage The German retreat and the Battle of Arras. (1920-1929)
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0:11:26The German retreat and the Battle of Arras (1920-1929)
Reel №1
England.
The British at the German barriers.
British engineers blow up houses to build new roads.
The population enthusiastically greets the British soldiers-cyclists.
A British soldier reads the latest news to the population.
A group of local residents under a German poster "God punish England".
Construction of a bridge across the Somme.
Another bridge across the Somme, built by the British.
Fruit trees cut down by the Germans during their retreat.
A former German observation post in England.
The French president in a liberated town with his entourage.
The liberated town of Royer.
Passers-by.
British soldiers on the streets talking to the population.
An English soldier with a child.
German fortifications.
British soldiers by the road.
Destruction in the town.
A crater after the explosion of a large-caliber bomb.
Ruins.
Panorama of a dilapidated town.
Ruins of a church.
The 2nd battery of howitzers begins shelling enemy territory.
The 6th battery, camouflaged in former French hangars.
It opens fire on the enemy.
Keywords
England, soldiers, population, propaganda, river, bridge, construction, highways, press, plants, England, war, president, destruction, population, soldiers, children, fortifications, church, military equipment
Reel №2
England.
Field guns shelling German positions.
English combat artillery officers in front of the camera.
View of combat positions.
Germans shelling a village.
Clouds of explosions.
English howitzers firing at the enemy.
South Africans raid enemy trenches.
They return with three prisoners.
Prisoners in front of the camera.
Arras railway station.
General view.
Railway tracks blocked by barbed wire.
Consequences of war destruction.
Ruins of houses England.
English guns firing.
Clouds of explosions.
Scottish soldiers are heading through no man's land to German trenches.
Panorama of combat positions.
Soldiers going on the attack.
The Scots are returning with valuable information England.
In the English trenches.
Preparing for the attack.
Preparing special stepladders for soldiers.
English cavalrymen are heading to Arras along the highway.
The cavalry is waiting for the signal to attack
Keywords
England, war, weapons, military leaders, artillery, fortifications, prisoners, France, war 1 world, railway, fortifications, destruction, England, war, weapons, fortifications, soldiers, England, war, cavalry, highways, fortifications, military equipment
Reel №3
England.
The English reserve battalion is resting on the road to Arras.
The Royal Light Infantry approaches the artillery units in preparation for the attack.
Preparing a fortified zone.
Infantry on the field England.
Explosions near the English positions.
A tank drives through the streets of the town.
A convoy and cavalry are moving in the distance.
Field artillery is moving to the forward positions.
English artillery is firing at the enemy England.
German prisoners help carry out the wounded.
German prisoners in front of the camera.
They are carrying the wounded.
The wounded are carried out of the trenches.
English soldiers in a captured German trench.
Germans killed on the battlefield England.
Prisoners of war taken at the Battle of Arras.
A column of prisoners of war.
Prisoners of war in front of the camera England.
English soldiers in front of the camera.
They are resting.
Soldiers are digging trenches England.
Transportation of military units and equipment to Cambral.
English wagons.
Construction of a narrow-gauge railway for transporting ammunition and weapons
Keywords
England, war, weapons, artillery, troops, fortifications, England, war, explosion, tanks, cavalry, artillery, England, war, prisoners, wounded, fortifications, soldiers, England, prisoners, England, war, soldiers, fortifications, rest, England, war, troops, military equipment, construction, highways, weapons
Reel №4
England.
Captured German artillery positions.
The Middlesex Battalion occupies old German trenches.
A howitzer battery moves towards Monchy.
Artillery units advance under enemy heavy artillery fire.
Clouds of explosions are visible.
The arrival of the first train in two years at the station in Arras.
An English military band marches through the streets of the city in honor of this event England.
The construction of a pontoon bridge across the Scarpe River.
Ruins along the banks of the river.
Captured German guns.
An accident with an English tractor-trailer intended for transporting guns.
English soldiers prepare wire fences.
Australian soldiers drive past a mine crater.
Ruins of a French village.
In front of the camera are soldiers from Queensland and Tasmania England.
Australian artillery observers watch the shelling of the "Hindenburg Line" by English guns England.
Germans shell English positions in the Monchy area.
Clouds of explosions.
Ruins of Monchy.
Soldiers of the Gallipoli Regiment in Monchy.
They are leaving
Keywords
England, war, artillery, fortifications, weapons, railway, orchestra, England, France, war, bridge, river, weapons, technique, fortifications, destruction, soldiers, England, war, artillery, weapons, England, destruction, troops, soldiers