• Short Summary

    A look at headquarters of Royal Engineers regiment, we hear their band play and march.

  • Description

    Royal Engineers' Band. Part of issue - CHILDREN FIRST AND LAST.

    Royal Engineer's Headquarters, Chatham, Kent.

    Various shots of war memorials within barracks for soldiers and officers of Royal Engineers that were killed in World War One, the Boer War and the Crimean War. Various shots of a statue - it is of General Gordon on horseback "hero of Khartun, he was once a Sapper in the R.E.s".

    Various shots of Royal Engineers' Band playing and marching about the parade ground.

    Various shots of booty captured by Royal Engineers - a large bell, some cannons.

    More shots of regimental band playing music and marching.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    1220.05
    Media URN:
    41665
    Group:
    New sound pictorials
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    30/07/1936
    Sound:
    Sound
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:03:04:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:03:30:00 / 01:06:34:00
    Canister:
    NSP 18

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