WWI - 1917, Belgium: Capture of Messines, 05-12Jun17

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWI - 1917, Sport Competition; Messines Battle, ca 05-12Jun17 Title. 08:56:00 Intertitle: “Sports behind the lines...keeping everyone fit...” 15th Scottish Div. (not in Battle of Messines) tug-of-war, running races in gas mask, in kilts carrying bagpipes. Mules pull gun carriages past. 08:57:07 Title: Before taking up front line positions, Australian troops were shown a large contour plan... 08:57:15 Australian 3rd Division troops descend from observation tower overlooking contour plan / scale model of battlefield laid out near Scherpenberg. Aussie troops around fence overlooking plan; stand around officer w/ map. Pan across w/ soldiers looking at map. 08:58:06 05Jun17 Preliminary bombardment begins in afternoon, heavy smoke seen across Douve River valley over heads of Australian soldiers. 08:58:26 Intertitle. Artillery observer on edge of Ploegsteert Wood on field telephone to gunnery batteries. 08:58:44 11Jun17 Road from Ploegstert to Messines w/ wounded carried on stretchers past barren landscape & stunted trees. Walking wounded, water wagon past. Mules carrying ammunition crates & supplies past in opposite direction toward front lines. MCU wounded soldiers stop for cigarette. 08:59:51 Printed excerpt from Sir Douglas Haig’s despatch re nineteen deep mines exploded simultaneously. View into deep crater from the explosions, soldiers walking in bottom show massive size. Messines being shelled by Germans seen across ruins. 09:01:28 ca 08Jun17 Intertitle. “Ruins of Wytschaete Village, captured by North & South Irishmen fighting side by side.” Wood on left. 09:01:41 Interitle: “Irish regiments...from trenches to a rest camp.” 16th Irish Division marching back to Locre rest area; led by military band, greeted by its LOOB / Left Out of Battle segment. 09:02:22 Intertitle: “And next comes a good wash.” Troops wash in farm pond. 09:02:38 Intertitle: “The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on their way back to a rest camp”. Men of 6th Royal Irish Rifles / Regiment issued stout. Men queue in long line to get beer ration. 09:03:57 Intertitle. Major General O.S.W. Nugent & staff of 36th Ulster Division pose; groups of officers & men of 36th Division. 09:04:28 Intertitle. The Royal Dublin Fusiliers gag for camera w/ captured trophies: German helmets, etc pose near Dranoutre. 09:04:42 Intertitle. “Some of the men who were led ‘over the top’ by the late Major W. Redmond M.P.” Men of 7th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles, group around camera w/ tents in their rest area. 09:05:10 Intertitle. Grave of Major Redmond w/ flowers growing, two nuns stand beside looking at it. CU grave. WW1; Battles; Fighting Aftermath; Wounded; Allied Troops; Destruction; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: Prelude to Third Battle of Ypres, aka Passchendaele, which began on 11Jul17. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk