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...
The Legion, led by its band, marches up to the front of the cathedral at Puy-les-Volontaires for a mass. The Legion in the main square at Breuil holds a review before its leaders while a number of civ...
The King is escorted round the base by RAF officers. A groundcrew party hauls down a barrage balloon as he watches. Two other barrage balloons are seen floating side by side in the sky. The King leave...
Mr Gompers with two other labour leaders comes up the ladder and onto the quarterdeck of HMS Queen Elizabeth. Admiral Sir David Beatty is there with his staff to shake hands and meet him.The King and ...
Franchet d'Esperey is met from his train by various military representatives of the Allies, British, Italian and Serbian. Franchet d'Esperey goes on with his staff to review part of the French conting...
The canals running through the town are undamaged but the main girder bridge has been brought down. British soldiers of II Corps wait in the main square.Civilians watch while the British, of 40th Divi...
I. French language version of a newsreel of H S Cautley MP opening the municipal piggeries in London, June 1918. As a crowd watches, Cautley lights a fire under a bin in order to cook pigswill. He lad...
The soldiers bring the full coaltrucks out to the surface of the mine. The coal is dumped from the trucks and horse-wagons are loaded from the dump. A traction engine runs a coal-crusher. A few soldie...