The celebrations involve an Italian contingent parade and marchpast, chiefly of the field guns, watched by the contingent's commander, General di Robillant. A posed group of General Peppino Garibaldi,...
An old soldier chats to an elderly woman refugee who has returned home and is using stones and rubble to repair her house. More refugees return by horse and cart. One couple begins to weed a garden, a...
The Governor, who is ex-Minister of War, has an escort of lancers. The Sultan's Guard of zouaves, guns and lancers marches past, led by its French officers.The recently-captured Hurtebise plateau in t...
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 film is in fragments of a few seconds' duration. Apart from numerous items from the French sector of the Western Front and the Italian Front, there are three main themes. One is French forces in n...