# THE BATTLE OF ANCRE

THE BATTLE OF ANCRE Produced: 1919 Description On the British Army. Reel 1, supplies are unloaded at a railhead. Brit. and Australian troops take positions. Artillery shells are unloaded and taken to gun positions in horse carts. Weapons are checked, loaded, and fired. Wounded ride sleighs to the rear. Reel 2, rations arrive at the trenches. Troops travel communicating trenches to the front. Scottish and Brit. troops begin the attack. POW's are herded to the rear and searched. Antiaircraft guns strafe Ger. planes. Reel 3 shows troops resting; ruins in Beaumont; captured positions; Brit. tanks; supply trains and troops advancing; artillery firing. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/35466

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1919
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/111-m-60-r1_HD_2Mbps)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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