A very brief scene of British soldiers and French civilians walking along a street, possibly Arras. A Mk IV Female tank, with two soldiers riding on it, moving away across a field. A Highland battalio...
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 ...
Soldiers, possibly 16th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, 33rd Division, in the later stages of digging a trench. Some of the men use long poles to fix barbed wire entanglements across a small stre...
Soldiers start digging a trench system and wiring up the positions. Finned mortar bombs for a 58mm Crapouillot (?) are carried forward into a front-line trench and used to bombard the German positions...
The film's scenes are out of sequence and its title appears nearly half-way through. As it stands, it opens with soldiers filling sandbags and digging a trench line. Scottish troops on the march with ...
The Prince of Wales leaves a house to enter a car. A steam pump in operation by a canal lock, probably the Yser Canal. Troops, possibly new arrivals, entering billets. A field kitchen. Soldiers diggin...
A column of prisoners, "Prussians and Bavarians" moving over rough ground with an escort. A body search of prisoners in a trench. German prisoners help British RAMC men with British and German wounded...
The men are due to serve with the French Army. They practise a river-crossing using pontoon ferries, drill and bayonet exercises on a parade ground, digging trenches in the scrub and making a mock att...