I. A battery of Field Artillery in medium shot moving rapidly across country, followed by a close-up of the last two guns passing a small hut at the trot. A stationary Medium A Whippet tank (B37, poss...
A column of RFA limbers reloads from a dump of 18-pounder shells beside a track before moving forward (possibly near Harlincourt ?). A group of soldiers, possibly Royal Scots Fusiliers, walks in loose...
British rough material of the Battle of Amiens, Western Front, mid-August 1918.
(Reel 1) Near Bapaume a German "anti-tank gun" lies in an unidentifiable wreck with its crew dead beside it. Shells burst in the distance. Two 6-inch Mk VII guns are drawn by Holt tractors to new posi...
I. The build-up to war from the earliest days of film record, showing the various crowned heads of Europe.II. The Balkan wars of 1912, the development of Germany's Navy, and the inauguration of Presid...
The formal ceremony takes place at the general's headquarters. He pins decorations on the standards of seven regiments, including that of 21st Battalion, Chasseurs (?). In Châlons, close to the headq...
The Tardenois offensive, starts with the bombardment of Chassins (?). Oulchy-la-Ville and Oulchy-le-Château, captured virtually undamaged by 41st Division. British soldiers of 34th Division rest by a...
The "Deuxième Bataille Offensive de Verdun" opens with a bombardment. A 145mm naval gun firing under tarpaulin, showing its loading mechanism clearly. Other guns join in - a 155mm heavy howitzer, a 7...