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Collections - Film 1914 Lancaster Mobilisation and Morecambe Volunteer Training - page two Transferred to DVD from the original film footage from 1914. This DVD features the mobilisation of soldiers in Lancaster at the
start of the First World War, a parade to the Regimental Chapel to lay up
the battalion's Colours and views
of Phoenix Street and the Volunteer Drill Hall. Soldiers are seen
marching to Lancaster Castle Station and their departure to the south of
England on 14th August 1914. A later scene shows members of the
5th Reserve Battalion departing from Lancaster Castle Station at the end
of October 1914 and there arrival
at Blackpool where they continued to train.. The second part of the
film, shot in
September and October 1914, features members of the 5th Reserve Battalion, still without issued uniform,
drilling in Morecambe.
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