Part of the area is flooded. A marching column sets out for the front lines. Engineers knock in stakes for wire defences in the second line and fix wire to them. A relief patrol moves up in single fil...
The film opens with a French and US soldier shaking hands, fading into a statue of Lafayette with Washington. Scenes of American troops disembarking at a harbour to substantiate the claim that there a...
General de Gaulle made a three-day trip to the French occupation zone in Germany. Accompanied by General Koenig, commander of the French occupation zone, he went to Saarbrücken, Mainz and then to dif...
This newsreel is probably put together of different parts of different newsreels since some of it is in Russian and some of it in English. Synopsis: newsreel of the events of the I WW. Australian s...
A column of men from 1st Balloon Company, in the Meuse or Moselle region, march through a village. British "8-inch Naval rifles" (in fact 6-inch Mk VII guns) being fired by gunners of 27th (New York) ...
French officers greet Luxembourg officers in Heiderscheid. The Luxembourg troops, all quite elderly, possibly 1870 veterans, march past followed by the French. The senior French officer is read a test...
May 1916. A large detachment of prisoners arrives at the Souilly (Meuse) camp. The detachment stands out, with prisoners from Alsace, Poland and Denmark. Featuring: A panorama of the camp and its wall...
The standards, donated by the people of Paris, are presented in a formal ceremony, in the open and in very windy conditions. After the presentation and marchpast one of the standards is displayed for ...
Screenshot from "Guerre 1914-1915. Le General Joffre en Alsace"
0527 - Beaucourt - Prisoner of War Camp Stereoscopic glass plate from a private collection in Alsace-Lorraine.