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AuthorWar Office
TitleGeneral reviewing troops
NotesGeneral De Lisle on horseback finishes addressing troops drawn up on three sides of a square in open country and rides off. Troops are West Riding Field Company, Royal Engineers (a Territorial unit) If this was filmed on the 29th June with them are the 1st Lancashire Fusiliers (86th Brigade).
Item Date28th - 29th June 1916
Creation placeSomme (Google Maps)
File typeVideo
Item sourceVHS copy of original film
Item mediumVHS copy of original film
ContentFootage
KeywordsAllied Forces, Somme, Fighting Men
Collection IDThe Battle of the Somme, Part 1, Caption 10
Repository nameImperial War Museum Film and Video Archive
Repository address
Imperial War Museum
Lambeth Road
London
SE1 6HZ
UK
Repository URLhttp://www.iwm.org.uk/
CataloguerEverett Sharp
FilenameCXTIWMFILMvsom3.mpg
CopyrightThe Imperial War Museum
Publication editorUrban, C. A. and Malins G. H.
Digital repositoryThe First World War Poetry Digital Archive
ProducerJury, W. F.
Reference URLhttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/1833