• Short Summary

    British army exercises in Sussex.

  • Description

    Full title reads: "Army exercises in Sussex".

    M/S of group of British Army officers chatting. Various shots of soldiers in fatigues marching through town streets and fields. Various shots of army vehicles and cavalry riding through streets and fields. C/U of soldiers operating field telephone / radio equipment. More shots of army vehicles on manoeuvres - tanks, jeeps, caterpillar wheeled armoured cars carrying heavy artillery.

    M/S of soldiers running down slope, in background are white chalk cliffs. The soldiers through themselves to ground and point rifles. M/S of horse drawn gun carriage. Various shots soldiers loading antiaircraft gun. L/S of aeroplane flying over field, soldiers point their guns at it. M/S of armoured car / tank.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    891.18
    Media URN:
    13117
    Group:
    Pathe newsreels
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    24/08/1936
    Sound:
    Sound
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:01:13:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:34:05:00 / 01:35:18:00
    Canister:
    36/68

Comments (2)

  1. Unknown user says

    The three unusual small vehicles seen at 0:10 are all Vickers Carden Loyd Utility Tractors.

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  2. Kalinovsky says

    The tracked vehicles at 0.10 and again from about 0.28 are technically Tractors Light GS Mark I. They belong to B Company of the 1st Battalion Durham Light Infantry who in 1935 and 1936 formed the Machine Gun Battalion of the Experimental 6th Infantry Brigade, commanded by Brigadier HM Wilson D.S.O., later better known in and after WW2 as General and then Field Marshal Jumbo Wilson. The 6th Brigade was based near Camberley Surrey in Dettingen Barracks Blackdown, now known as Deepcut.

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