Soldiers simulate a night attack, blindfolding themselves before charging out of a trench down a course. Other soldiers build barbed wire entanglements while wearing gasmasks. Two soldiers in a foxhol...
(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...
The squadron's tour takes in the principal ports of the Empire. At each port the ships of the squadron are thrown open to the locals. Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick L Field has his flag on board HMS Hood....
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 airship is reversed out of its shed. It carries British RNAS roundels and the gondola is clearly marked NS5. It is manoeuvred into position on the landing ground and takes off. A message is droppe...
I. 'MUNITION WORKERS CANTEEN: Women after working on munitions enjoying an excellent dinner served in the canteen at actual cost'. After a brief scene of the women at their workbenches, the sizeable c...
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 ...
I. 'SIDECAR OUTING FOR WOUNDED SOLDIERS: Wounded soldiers from St Thomas's Hospital enjoy a run to Burford Bridge, where they are entertained by Alderman Duncan Watson'. The soldiers sit on the steps;...