While their French Army guards watch, the German prisoners work breaking rocks and shovelling soil, probably for road-fill.
Newsreel item on German prisoners at work in Brittany, early 1915.
The men sit at a table in the open air, using a loading machine attached to the table to fill the cloth belts.A heavy gun fires, completely concealed by a tent with only its barrel showing, but possib...
The inside of the church is shown for a few seconds, it shows some shell damage. According to the caption "the Germans show no respect for churches".
Extremely brief newsreel item on damage to a ...
Clémenceau uses neither helmet nor gasmask. He begins at a senior officers' headquarters and goes down into the trenches to talk to the troops.
Newsreel item on Prime Minister Clémenceau visiti...
The suffragettes work up ladders on a hoarding, painting various signs encouraging votes for women. They are calm and happy, there is no sense of violence.
Newsreel item on suffragettes in New Yo...
Major-General Sir Francis Lloyd, on horseback, inspects the members of the National Volunteer Reserve in Regents Park. They march past him, including bicycle troops.
Newsreel item on the National...
In Trafalgar Square a big placard has been placed across the plinth of Nelson's Column, reading "England Expects This Day That Every Man Will Do His Duty". People crowd the square. Around the plinth a...
Major-General Sir Francis Lloyd inspects 2nd Battalion, the London Welsh (or 18th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers) drawn up on parade at their barracks, and then in a nearby park. The Royal Welch 'fl...