SEPTEMBER OFFENSIVE 3 [Main Title]

Unedited film of British troops in the Advance to Victory, Western Front, September 1918.

(Reel 1) Stretcher-bearers with wounded, some German, arrive at an advanced dressing station. (Some of the bearers are German prisoners with Red Cross armbands.) Described as Achiet-le-Grand but possibly 65th Field Ambulance, 21st Division, near Epéhy on 18th September. At the entrance to a bell tent a British doctor removes the bandage from a German with a head wound, wiping the blood away as he does so. A group of British troops sit wearing light overalls with their regimental caps. They are described as men who have been gassed and have changed out of their gas-laden clothes, but show no signs of distress. (Reel 2) A marching column behind the lines with ammunition limbers going the other way, probably 40th Division (note formation sign). A house on fire with trees nearby. A destroyed village with British GS wagons and troops moving through. At another location, possibly Bray-sur-Somme, houses are damaged on both sides of a wide main street. A small leave-boat with camouflage markings, its deck crowded with cheering British and Dominion troops, leaves the quay for England.

35mm