Posted on Jan 5, 2019

Post Armistice Training, Engineers Corps Troops [1919]

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Very interesting footage of explosives and construction of trench lines.
Published on Nov 29, 2018
(This film is silent)
National Archives Identifier: 24940
Local Identifier: 111-H-1438
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/24940

From: Series: Historical Films, ca. 1914 - ca. 1936
Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Other Title: Historical Film, No. 1438

Scope and Content: On training at Gondrecourt, France. Bengalor torpedoes are used to explode barbed-wire entanglements. Torpedoes are loaded with Cheddite. A machine gun emplacement is demolished. Charges are placed under a bridge trestle. Trench revetments are constructed from brushwood, corrugated iron, and fill dirt. Sandbag revetments are thrown up.

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