The Stock Exchange in London "closes its doors" in 1914 - a crowd is clustered around it. "Germany mobilises," a pre-war German training exercise with the troops in Prussian blue, not field grey: a 77...
The men line up in the open for the pay parade, and come forward in turn to collect their pay from the officers' table.
Newsreel item on a pay parade for a Royal Artillery unit in England, March ...
Limbered 77mm field guns pass at the trot, then halt for the crews to dismount. The caption points out that German NCOs lead each column. A posed group of senior officers, including one German in Turk...
Troops train with the gas-hood, which fits rucked up around the cap like a cap-band. The men crouch behind a barricade of logs. Smoke, representing gas, drifts over them and they pull down the hoods. ...
The film starts with three ships from the fleet: first the four-funnelled cruiser Midilli, formerly SMS Breslau, riding at anchor, then a Muvanet-i-Milet Class destroyer showing the Turkish flag at he...
The brigade, raised in Camberwell, parades through the streets on its way to join 33rd Division at Bulford. The streets are lined with people as the limbers move past.
Newsreel item on CLVI Briga...
A field howitzer (tinted grey), part of a battery, fires from a gun pit in the snow of the mountains. General "Selivanoff" (sic) (tinted yellow) sitting in his car with another officer. A Red Cross ho...
The men of the draft, possibly for 1st Battalion, march led by their band through the station concourse. The first trainload of the men pulls out of the station, and the men remaining on the platform ...