This French film compiles footage shot during the early months of World War I. Images include war damage along the Oise and Marne rivers, Belgian and German positions, a Canadian unit before crossing ...
The internees play together, tossing corks into a circle to pass the time.The ambulances pull up at the military hospital and a stretcher is taken out of one with a wounded soldier on it. One of the a...
The camp is tented and quite primitive, near some woods. The soldiers wander about, none badly injured. Some nurses are visible.
Newsreel item on a British convalescent camp in France or Belgium,...
The Mayor and town council assemble outside the Town Hall and deliver speeches on the presentation of the ambulances. A local clergyman gives a prayer. The ambulances then drive past the watching sold...
Film fragment of an Australian convoy of wounded on mule-drawn litters, led by a mule-drawn ambulance, making its way over dusty hills, possibly Palestine, 1916-1918.
General Sir Herbert Plumer, GOC Second Army (back to camera) presents medals to a line of four British nurses in a field near Blendecques, Western Front, 26 June 1918.
The sports are held by convalescent soldiers wearing hospital blue uniforms, and by nurses. A man and woman in civilian clothes, well-dressed, throw sweets to the crowd of convalescents. The sports co...
I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...
Medium shot of nurses Tonička (actress: Truda Grosslichtová) and Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) standing by a table in a room. Mathilde has a paletot over her shoulders and is staring fixedly s...
Medium close-up of Lieutenant Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) in profile and the cadet Severa (actor: Stanislav Strnad), who is lying on a hospital bed.
Medium close-up of Nurse Tonička (Truda Grosslichtová) and Corporal Bartoněk (Jiří Vondrovič) standing in a corridor. They are smiling at one another and she is touching his bandaged hand.
Medium shot of an Austrian officer and Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) looking at each other. The man is smoking a cigarette. Another soldier is visible behind them. In the left background i...
Medium shot of Lieutenant Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) in profile and nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová).
Medium close-up of Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) sleeping on a bed and First Lieutenant Liška (actor: František Kreuzmann) in pyjamas leaning over him.
Medium shot of Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) lying in a bed with a bandage on her left elbow. Nurse Tonička (actress: Truda Grosslichtová) is standing on the left with her hand resting o...
Medium shot of Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) standing next to a night stand in a hospital room. In the background is a window with a panoramic view of Brno.