The film opens with an unrelated shot of troops digging a trench line. It continues as Portuguese mule-drawn field gun limbers come down a steep grassy bank towards the camera. They turn and wheel on ...
(Reel 1) General Sir Henry Horne, GOC First Army, is greeted by the GOC of the Portuguese Corps, General Tamagnini, and inspects a guard of honour which afterwards marches past. A Portuguese battalion...
The film starts with the President leaving his guest château at Montreuil to the salute of the British escort, tipping his hat to the camera and driving off. At 4pm on 11 October he and Field Marshal...
I. The La Bassée Canal sector. British troops commencing barbed wire defences in open country on 17 April. On the same day troops in Béthune (?) dig a trench-line, with shells bursting over the hous...
A head-on shot of a Mk IV Female tank 146 HMLS 'Inviolate' of 9th Battalion, Tank Corps, equipped with unditching equipment, crossing over a bank, followed by three other Mk IV tanks, all being driven...
The King, in Field Marshal's uniform and unaccompanied by other members of the Royal family, arrives at Calais on HMS Whirlwind on 5 August. Three days later he inspects British and US pilots of RAF 1...
The soldiers prepare wood-and-earth shelters for themselves and their horses for the forthcoming winter in Russian Poland. At "Chassina" (presumably in Poland) the town is a smoking ruin an hour after...
Machado with President Poincaré at Verdun inspects the troops, and presents the Mayor of Verdun with the Order of the Tower and the Sword. The two presidents enter through the defences of the city an...