A collection of fragments of British and Australian aviation film of the First World War period.
The King inspects the ship's company drawn up on deck. With him are various naval and civilian dignitaries, including Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty (seen briefly). The party comes d...
I. The first sequence consists of static or stop-action scenes of a number of gas masks or gashoods displayed one at a time against a white background. Firstly the British P or PH gashood of 1915 with...
Some men of IX Corps emerge from a command post dugout in the recently captured German trench system before Roye. Views of Roye itself with X Corps troops clearing away the rubble, showing the Montdid...
Some of the troops line a trench, others a sunken road. Engineers of 3rd (Marne) Division build a light bridge over the river. Transport crosses a stone bridge as the sappers continue to repair it. A ...
I. Low-angle medium shot of dazzle painted hull of SS War Forest on slipway. Pan across crowd of soldiers and civilian workers, some of whom cheer and wave to camera. Medium close-up of (?) Lord Pirri...
Taken at the school on 9 March 1916, this film shows in detail the firing procedures for the 6-inch 26cwt howitzer, the 8-inch Mk VI howitzer and the 9.2-inch Mk I howitzer with the new Type 106 graze...
(Reel 1) The film starts with close-ups of the baseplate and tube of the Livens Projector. An instructor shows how the bomb is fused and armed. Then a view of two Livens Projectors buried in a trench ...