Newsreel about dailly life in the French trenches during the First World War.
This newsreel consists of 6 parts, showing soldiers training, ruins, life in the trenches, and German prioners of war in a camp in Brittany.
A group of officers and civilians attends the assembly and test-firing of the 240mm Trench Mortar.
Well behind the lines, a mass of soldiers, most probably from 123rd Division semi-posed as if waiting for transport. A senior officer is with them, possibly Lieutenant-General de Riols de Fonclare, th...
The film opens with Marshal Joffre talking to General Pershing. It then shows French soldiers in the rear area peeling potatoes, moving around woods, saddling pack horses to take them for a ride, and ...
The journalists watch a demonstration of trench fighting in the training trenches. They inspect the trenches. The men of the division march past, and their commander, Brigadier-General F S Meighan, ta...
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 chronicles the battle for the conquest of Adrianople during the First Balkan War. Tha battle was fought between the 21 and 22 March 1913.
The battle of Zborov: Tomeš in the foreground and other two soldiers with rifles and bayonets in the trench.
The battle of Zborov: Countdown before the assault.
The battle of Zborov: Several soldiers hidden in the trench.
The battle of Zborov: Captured Austrian soldiers run in the trench.
Two Austrian soldiers give up without a fight to Russians.
The battle of Zborov: A system of trenches with soldiers.