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Searched For: All Keywords./ Subject Area: Wartime
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BOER ATTACK ON A RED CROSS OUTPOST
Date: 1900 Film Number: 250
 
Wounded soldiers are taken into a Red Cross tent on stretchers. A cannon ball rolls into the tent and explodes - the soldiers and a nurse are helped out. (Faked Topical)
 
 
 
THE DESPATCH BEARER
Date: 1900 Film Number: 251
 
A battle scene - the despatch bearer fights his way through and delivers his message which is carried on by another soldier. (Faked Topical)
 
 
 
RESCUE OF A WOUNDED GUNNER
Date: 1900 Film Number: 252
 
A battle scene - two soldiers pull a gun into the arena, shots are fired and one of the soldiers is wounded. A third soldier arrives on horse back, dismounts, and helps the wounded soldier onto the horse. (Faked Topical)
 
 
 
A SNEAKY BOER / [A SKIRMISH WITH BOERS]
Date: 1900 Film Number: 320
 
Two Boers sneak up on a soldier and overpower him. He is rescued by another soldier. Boers take down the flag on a Red Cross hut and are about to shoot the two nurses who defend it when a party of soldiers comes to the rescue. (Faked Topical)
 
 
 
SOLDIER'S FUNERAL AT BRADFORD
Date: 1905 Film Number: 256
 
A crowd is gathered around the graveside and there is a rifle salute. The crowd, many in uniform, disperses.
 
 
 
CHESHIRE TERRITORIALS AT ABERGAVENY
Date: 1913 Film Number: 179
 
A procession of soldiers march down a street in Stockport. They leave for Abergaveny in a train from Edgeley station. Shots of the army camp, including the soldiers queuing for food and fooling around.
 
 
 
GREAT MILITARY REVIEW AT BOLTON
Date: 1914 Film Number: 15
 
A large crowd has gathered in a Bolton park where various military personnel parade. Medals are presented and a march past commences which also includes civilians. There are street scenes in Bolton and a monument is featured.
 
 
 
MORECAMBE VOLUNTEERS IN TRAINING
Date: 1914 Film Number: 1210
 
The film begins with shots of Morecambe Volunteers preparing to go to war. A group of women are seen unloading blankets at a collection point outside the Art School and the 5th Kings Own Lancaster Territorial Army mobilise at Bowerham Barracks before leaving for Castle Station. Concludes with footage of the Mayor and Mayoress standing on the platform bidding farewell to soldiers who are seen leaning out of their railway carriages, waving handkerchiefs at their family and friends.
 
 
 
THE 4/5TH BATTALIONS LANCS FUSILIERS ON THE MARCH
Date: 1915 Film Number: 74
 
Soldiers are seen being drilled with rifles and training in mock trenches.
 
 
 
MILITARY FUNERAL AT BURY
Date: 1915 Film Number: 75
 
Scenes from the funeral of Sergeant-Major George Ash on 11 March 1915. A procession of soldiers moves down a cobbled street lined with spectators. Soldiers form a guard of honour for the coffin which is carried from the horse-drawn hearse into the church. Civilians and soldiers follow the coffin inside.
 
 
 
PATHE'S ANIMATED GAZETTE (NO. 323B)
Date: 1915 Film Number: 88
 
New French Super Dreadnought. More Canadians coming! Ramsgate zeppelin raid. The Dardanelles. Cotton fire in Merseyside warehouse. Hospital transport service. A pony collecting funds. War fever in Italy. Lancashire recruits in training. King reviews troops at Newcastle. Troop train disaster. Our new ally. Church schools parade.
 
 
 
PATHE'S ANIMATED GAZETTE NO. 308B
Date: 1915 Film Number: 109
 
Volunteers inspected at Leytonstone. President Poincare visits an art gallery. Soldiers in a cross-country race at Aldershot. British East African troops. Birmingham soldiers marching to the station. Army officers on a fox hunt. A Dreadnought at sea. Inspection of ambulances at Buckingham Palace. The crew of the trawler Providence. Winter sports in Switzerland. German prisoners led down a street in Lancashire.
 
 
 
ANTI-GERMAN RIOTS IN LIVERPOOL
Date: 1915 Film Number: 183
 
Views of the wreckage after the riots - wrecked shops, a car and a warehouse, with people crowding round and a policeman on guard.
 
 
 
THE ACCRINGTON PALS BATTALION
Date: 1915 Film Number: 563
 
The Accrington Pals Battalion are seen leaving Salisbury Plain for active service - where a great number were killed. We then see the 'Pals' marching at Accrington on August 1st 1915.
 
 
 
[LIVERPOOL NEWSREEL COMPILATION]
Date: 1915/22/7 Film Number: 6820
 
Compilation of newsreel items from the Liverpool area. Lord Derby's recruiting band (band of the King's Liverpool regiment?) are seen on Lower Breck Road, Anfield, 1915, followed by F.L. Joseph and James Parker MP addressing the crowd and the band marching past Anfield Post Office and John Irwin Sons and Co Ltd. Wounded soldiers are seen being unloaded from ambulances before going on a sea trip. The third section shows a Liverpool Police Inspection at Sefton Park on 22nd June 1922 and the final story shows the air minister attending a ceremony at Chester Cathedral in November 1927 for airmen who fell during the First World War.
 
 
 
[FIRST WORLD WAR NEWSREEL COMPILATION]
Date: c1916 Film Number: 47
 
A Royal visit to Blackburn - the King reviews the Brigade of Guards in Hyde Park - a field gun competition - South African Labour Battalion in France - Air trainees take a balloon ride - the wreckage of a German bomber - troops try on gas masks - children playing in St. James' Park.
 
 
 
MILNROW AND NEWHEY ROLL OF HONOUR
Date: c1917 Film Number: 306
 
Portraits of 125 Milnrow and Newhey men who died in World War I.
 
 
 
[MEMORIAL PORTRAITS, WESTHOUGHTON]
Date: 1917 Film Number: 530
 
Portraits of 125 Westhoughton men who died in World War I
 
 
 
BURY WELCOMES HER RETURNED HEROES
Date: c1918 Film Number: 76
 
A procession of soldiers led by a civilian brass band moves through the streets of Bury which are crowded with spectators.
 
 
 
[SADDLEWORTH RETURNING HEROES]
Date: 1919 Film Number: 387
 
Crowds gather round a monument to "the glorious dead 1914-1919 Saddleworth" in Uppermill, prior to a procession of bands and veterans from the other villages - Diggle, Dobcross, Delph, and Greenfield.
 
 
 
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