(Reel 1) The film opens by stating that as the basis for the expansion of the Army in wartime the TA "may be a factor in the maintenance of peace". Men of 4th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, mar...
Fragment of a newsreel item showing a recruiting march through East London by the Essex Field Artillery and Royal Navy cadets, May 1913.
I. 'THE OLDEST REGIMENT: The Buffs (East Kents) stationed at Winchester is the oldest Regiment in the British Army'. Posed MS of a group of officers. Men fix bayonets and march off past camera. Rifle ...
6th Battalion, the Black Watch of 51st (Highland) Division collecting the men's packs between the Bois de Reims and St-Imoges, having just come out of line on 24 July. 1/5th Battalion, the Devonshire ...
I. 'BARRAGE FIRE. Owing to the wonderful accuracy and rapidity of fire, the French 75 m/m gun is extreamely (sic) useful for 'barrage fire' in preventing trench raids.' Rear 3/4 and rear view of 75mm ...
I. The film is outspoken, "The evidence - both documentary and otherwise - is now ample to prove that Germany forced this great and terrible War upon humanity to secure for herself the domination of t...