A posed group of the battalion's officers. Men of the battalion, obviously camera-conscious, rest by the roadside, then collect their kit and move off. Led by their band, they march in full kit throug...
The battalion Transport section cleans and maintains the wagons (note the 'four eights' divisional sign of 32nd Division). The wagons move out through a village. In the blacksmith's yard the horses ar...
The guard changes over outside the battalion headquarters. The battalion sports including "a cuddy fight" (wrestling while being carried on another man's back) and "a reveille race" of dressing in ful...
Women of the WAAC in the cookhouse serve food to soldiers. Waitresses serving in the officers' quarters. Views of the officers' mess. WAACs playing netball. WAACs tending the graves in a large cemeter...
Highlanders, probably 8th/10th Battalion, the Gordon Highlanders, sit with some South African Engineers of 9th Division outside the ruins of Arras Cathedral, 24th January 1918. Royal Engineers (or pos...
Each move in the assault is shown twice, as an animated diagram, then as actuality material. The defence is a thinly-held forward position, a main position, and a redoubt or final position, at about 5...
A pierrot show by men of the Norfolk Regiment, Western Front, autumn 1917.
The film opens with rolling fields, corn stacks at regular intervals. Soldiers line up for an open-air pay parade. Walking wounded come up a hill towards the camera, followed by some stretcher cases, ...