Filming the Somme, Film H (1916)

Soldiers of the 16th (Public Schools) Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment move along the slope near the mine crater on Hawthorn Ridge on 1 July 1916. This is thought to be genuine footage filmed by Geoffrey Malins soon after the detonation of the mine: filmed by the British War Office during the Battle of the Somme.

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[BennettIsAmazing]

@xXHoTAXx They did. Of course the lenses and film couldn't capture things like distance particularly well compared with even just a few years later - this film was intended to be seen in cinemas so the 'native resolution' would be considerably higher than this! On top of this the film was restored by the Imperial War Museum for DVD release, so there must be higher quality versions knocking about somewhere :)

[xXHoTAXx]

@BennettIsAmazing i doubt they had higher quality back then.

[BennettIsAmazing]

Do you have this in higher quality? It would be great to see.

[Somme1916Somme]

Thankyou for this footage.

[SergioWW1WW2]

DUDE, DO YOU HAVE THIS CLIP IN HD?

[TheSabbath8]

@polskich generals werent fault .artillery fire was because they didint have enough bigger bombs.half of them didint explode and other were small and couldnt do so much damage,artillery fire On some was 7 days and nights from british

[polskich]

60,000 casualtys in one day is unbelivable the generals should have been lined up and shot

[Bdiddly1]

while these men were fighting theyre general was 7 miles back in a cushty chateau& his name was general snow,hes dan snows great grandad

[LenAndTeg]

My great great uncle was in the 16th battalion- Middlesex Regiment. He was killed in october 1916. Quite strange to think he could have known those people you can just about make out...maybe he WAS one of those people....who knows

[ainslii]

I've been here also andit made me weep same as tyincot cematry. all of this footge of ww1 makes me weep . Richard M