Spanish generals being shown over the British sector of the Western Front, March-April 1917.

At Fourth Army headquarters, Querrieu Chteau, on 15 April 1917 General Henry Rawlinson shows the visiting generals some captured German trench mortars and a new Mark I Female tank. Leading the Spanish party are General Primo de Rivera, General Aranaz and also Brigadier-General Martinez Anido. After this comes the visit of the generals to the old Somme battlefield in March, escorted by Colonel Hulton Wilson. They drive up the Albert-Bapaume road, getting out at La Boisselle to tour the battlefield. The film jumps twice, to the debris of Le Sars and to the party standing on the Butte de Warlencourt. The generals go on to inspect the veterinary hospital at Abbville, watch British and Indian Cavalry (either 4th or 5th Cavalry Division) practising close-order charges on the training ground at Rouen, and pose beside the canteen at No 6 Veterinary Hospital in Rouen.

Notes

Title: this is taken from the shotsheet.

Summary: the General Primo de Rivera mentioned is the future Spanish dictator.