The parade starts and ends with contingents of light horse. In between them are foot soldiers, two companies each with a Maxim gun on a hand cart. All the men are in slouch hats and shirtsleeve order....
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...
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men wor...
A Royal Engineers sergeant shows how to load two carrier pigeons into a small wicker basket for transport. At the Rosyth seaplane base Felixstowe F2A flying boats and Short 184 seaplanes ride at ancho...
A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...
I. An out-of-focus sequence of General Sir Edmund Allenby (?) reviewing a marchpast by British or Indian Cavalry of the Desert Mounted Corps, Palestine Front, 1918.II. Arab workers filling bottles and...
Australian soldiers, probably of 5th Division, at the south end of the Saint Quentin tunnel at Bellicourt. A temporary bridge has been built just below the tunnel entrance. A view, from on top of the ...
The film opens with an unrelated scene of Australian troops exploding a shell or mine in a training exercise. 1st Spahi Cavalry Regiment 'charges' the camera. One of the men demonstrates steadiness by...
3217 - Albert Cathédrale (Albert, Département Somme, Picardie)
23113 - Tourelle détruite - Champagne
Marne 1914 - Église Ambulance (Département Marne)
Eglise de Suippes (Département Marne, Champagne-Ardenne)
4099 - En Reserve - Rosières-Somme (Rosière-en-Santerre, Département Somme, Picardie)
12611 - Vers Craonne - Entonnoir de mine (Département Aisne, Picardie)
Mitrailleurs contre avions Mont Kemmel (Flandre-Occidentale, Lys)
26407 - Tyrol - Cantonnement Autrichien
Presentation of Brussels by the puppets Toone and Woltje.
As producer, actor and filmmaker, Richard Massingham managed to combine his passion for film and medical science.
The film is compiled, rather than edited, by joining together four original films. (Reel 1) First IWM 31 INLAND WATER TRANSPORT, EGYPT and IWM 2 44TH REMOUNT SQUADRON ON THE EGYPTIAN COAST. (Reel 2) F...
Amateur footage of the main sights and buildings in the centre of Ayr, and shots of Alloway.