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S AFRICAN NATIVE LABOUR CONTINGENT : somewhere in France [Main]
SOUTH AFRICAN NATIVE LABOUR CONTINGENT : somewhere in France [alternative]
The film opens with Number 1 Camp of the contingent by a wood, and a posed group of the black NCOs with their white officers. The NCOs are all "native chiefs". Members of the contingent unload boxes of supplies at a dump from railway wagons, while others use picks and shovels to dig road mending material. The main part of the film concerns the contingent at work in a forest cutting down trees and …
Contributors
- Topical Film Company
Subject
- EFG1914
- Muti, Prince of Zululand
- British Army, South African Labour Contingent
- South African Army, South African Labour Contingent
- supplies, British, storage [RA] - misc
- agriculture, South African - arable
- recreation, South African military - casual
- society, South African military - ethnic
- society, South African military - sustenance
- 01/3(4-15).7
- …
- France
- World War I
- World War I
- World War, 1914-1918--France
Type of item
- Film
- motion pictures (visual works)
Contributors
- Topical Film Company
Subject
- EFG1914
- Muti, Prince of Zululand
- British Army, South African Labour Contingent
- South African Army, South African Labour Contingent
- supplies, British, storage [RA] - misc
- agriculture, South African - arable
- recreation, South African military - casual
- society, South African military - ethnic
- society, South African military - sustenance
- 01/3(4-15).7
- …
- France
- World War I
- World War I
- World War, 1914-1918--France
Type of item
- Film
- motion pictures (visual works)
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Rights
- Imperial War Museums
Creation date
- 1917
- 1917
Places
- France
- France
- United Kingdom
- KwaZulu-Natal
- France
- United Kingdom
Provenance
- Imperial War Museums
Identifier
- IWM_413
- IWM_413
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Year
- 1917
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2013-12-19T08:46:47.425Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-10-20T12:49:15.528Z