Learning on ScreenIn Rugged Strength. Erected to the Fallen of the Famous Highland Division (The 51st); Marshal Foch Unveiled This Magnificent Memorial Immortalising the Recapture of Beaumont Hamel.
Series
- Series Name
- Gaumont Graphic
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 5
- Summary
- SHOTLIST: LV officers (including Foch) walk up steps of monument (not seen). LVs officers by memorial, still draped in flag and part only visible. [2ND SUBTITLE]: THE GUARD OF HONOUR WAS FORMED TO REPRESENT EVERY HIGHLAND REGIMENT IN THE DIVISION TMLV Highland troops salute with guns. [3RD SUBTITLE]: THE LAMENT OF THE PIPERS ‘THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST’. MLV pipers slow march round memorial. LV memorial with statue of Highland soldier on top, people round it. MLV to MV Foch salutes men and walks off. MLV officer and lady lay wreath with ‘HD’ on it. [4TH SUBTITLE]: THE KING’S TRIBUTE. A WREATH OF WHITE HEATHER FROM THE BALMORAL ESTATE. MLV soldier holding wreath, pipers on left.
- Keywords
- Commemorations; Buildings and structures; Ceremonies; Military
- Locations
- France
- Library number GR
- 7942
- Length of story (in feet)
- 95
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