The King Inspects the Canadian. Bomb Throwing - A Mimic Attack - Barbed Wire Entanglements

Series

Series Name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue

Issue No.

745

Date Released

13 May 1918

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1American Airmen Keeping Fit
2. 2His Majesty at the Brigade of Guards’ Machine Gun School
3. 3The Countess of Leicester, Supported by Sir William Bull MP and the Mayor, Opens the New (Hammersmith) Branch of the Comrades of the Great War.
4. 4Lest We Forget. on 7th May 1915 the ‘Lusitania’, an Unarmed Passenger Ship, was Torpedoed by the Huns Without Warning and 1198 Lives Were Lost.
5. 5The King Inspects the Canadian. Bomb Throwing - A Mimic Attack - Barbed Wire Entanglements

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Summary

King inspects Canadian troops who give mimic attack: bomb throwing, bayonets charge etc. George V watches them dig trenches. Boxing and physical exercise.

Keywords

Royalty; Sport; Weapons; Military

Library number GR

2290

Length of story (in feet)

150

Story extras:

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