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the CANADIAN VICTORY AT COURCELETTE : and the advance of the tanks [Main]
(Reel 1) Albert Cathedral, mid-1916. The Canadian 6th Brigade, 2nd Division, led by Brigadier-General H D B Ketchen (past German prisoners) towards the battlefield, halts to rest at La Boisselle crossroads before entering the trench system. A kite balloon is raised to direct fire from 9.2-inch howitzers. A BE2d of the RFC is bombed-up with 112-pound, 40-pound, 20-pound and phosphorus bombs (shown …
Contributors
- Topical Film Company
Subject
- EFG1914
- Ketchen, Huntley Douglas Brodie
- British Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force
- Canadian Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force
- British Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Div 2, Bde 6
- Canadian Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Div 2, Bde 6
- Royal Air Force, Royal Flying Corps
- politics, Canadian - institutional: election
- transport, Canadian military - truck, special: carrier pigeon loft
- buildings, French - religious: cathedral
- …
- France
- World War I
- World War I
- World War, 1914-1918--France
Type of item
- Film
- motion pictures (visual works)
Contributors
- Topical Film Company
Subject
- EFG1914
- Ketchen, Huntley Douglas Brodie
- British Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force
- Canadian Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force
- British Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Div 2, Bde 6
- Canadian Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Div 2, Bde 6
- Royal Air Force, Royal Flying Corps
- politics, Canadian - institutional: election
- transport, Canadian military - truck, special: carrier pigeon loft
- buildings, French - religious: cathedral
- …
- France
- World War I
- World War I
- World War, 1914-1918--France
Type of item
- Film
- motion pictures (visual works)
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Rights
- Imperial War Museums
Creation date
- 1917
- 1917
Places
- France
- La Boisselle, Somme, France
- Courcelette, Somme, France
- Vimy Ridge, Pas-de-Calais, France
- France
- Ovillers-la-Boisselle
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- Courcelette
- Battle of Vimy Ridge
- Canada
- Courcelette Memorial
- Ovillers-la-Boisselle
- France
Provenance
- Imperial War Museums
Identifier
- IWM_466
- IWM_466
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Year
- 1917
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-03-31T08:55:20.307Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-10-20T12:49:15.528Z