Bayonet Drill Sequence AKA Lancs Fusiliers (1914-1918)

Bayonet drill sequence. Location of events unknown. World War One. Military training. Lancashire Fusiliers at Bayonet Exercise. Opens with side view of group of soldiers drilling with bayonets. Then LS of a sort of progressive Bayonet exercise: on a flat plain with a huge hill in distance; soldiers run from distance toward camera; first jumping over a fence then running up and knocking aside bags hanging from bars on poles; then run a few more yards and stab more bags lying on the ground. Violence. Two more lines of fusiliers repeat this exercise. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount
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