Description
Object description
II. Bullets strike dried-up mud and a tree-trunk lying on the ground. The carrier platoon from one of the three Black Watch battalions in the 51st (Highland) Division practises camouflage techniques in Thetford battle area. Two men cut tree branches with machetes and place foliage on their universal carrier. A serviceman prepares to remove the sign on the outside of a pub requisitioned by the army. An army cook examines cakes cooked in an outside oven and pours boiling water from an urn.
Object description
I. G-1 ammunition shelters containing 25-pounder and 7.2- inch shells and various types of grenade are seen lining both sides of a road and scattered in a wood nearby outside the village of Littlebury in Essex. Two RAOC storesmen serving with No 83 Command Ammunition Depot check crates of grenades under the supervision of a third man who keeps tally of the numbers. The camera examines the stencilled lettering on the crates containing No 75 Hawkins anti-tank mines. A section of Pioneers is seen on a route march. The section leader orders a halt and his men fall out to take a rest.
Full description
I. G-1 ammunition shelters containing 25-pounder and 7.2- inch shells and various types of grenade are seen lining both sides of a road and scattered in a wood nearby outside the village of Littlebury in Essex. Two RAOC storesmen serving with No 83 Command Ammunition Depot check crates of grenades under the supervision of a third man who keeps tally of the numbers. The camera examines the stencilled lettering on the crates containing No 75 Hawkins anti-tank mines. A section of Pioneers is seen on a route march. The section leader orders a halt and his men fall out to take a rest.
Full description
II. Bullets strike dried-up mud and a tree-trunk lying on the ground. The carrier platoon from one of the three Black Watch battalions in the 51st (Highland) Division practises camouflage techniques in Thetford battle area. Two men cut tree branches with machetes and place foliage on their universal carrier. A serviceman prepares to remove the sign on the outside of a pub requisitioned by the army. An army cook examines cakes cooked in an outside oven and pours boiling water from an urn.
Physical description
35mm