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Dramatised Boer War short made by the Lancashire firm of Mitchell and Kenyon. It shows two nurses saved from the ...
ACTUALITY. A British troop exercise during the Boer War presented as genuine military action.
[THE SCOUTS IN PURSUIT OF THE BOERS] ...
DRAMA. A soldier returns to the family home but can get no reply. A neighbour emerges from her house. (Jump ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. A long column of mounted troops fording a river (148ft).
Note: Lord Roberts took the surrender of Kroonstad ...
A steam traction engine hauling timber in a dockyard, apparently in South Africa (during the Boer War). A number of ...
The train, with engine decorated with flag and the letters "CIV" on the front, pulls out of the station; soldiers ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. A Company of British troops, just arrived in Port Elizabeth, march from the jetty towards a square ...
ACTUALITY. Troop train passing over the Modder River during the Boer War.
A train, with locomotives and armoured cars at each ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. A long line of carts and wagons drawn by mules and oxen crosses the Vaal river - ...
DRAMA. A 'faked' newsfilm representing an incident in the Boer War.
Four gunners are seen under fire; one falls wounded as ...
Film biography of the youth of Winston Churchill.
ACTUALITY. Long distance shot of "The Bluff" nearing Durban; it sails towards the camera, turns, and passes in medium close ...
ACTUALITY. Single shot. Spectators on the quayside wave as the crowded ship moves away.
Note: The Roslin Castle left Southampton on ...