Soldiers make an attack from the trenches. One such soldier (in an acted sequence) is handed his discharge notice in the trench by an officer. The men who have been discharged board a ship to cross th...
I. The film is often disjointed, but covers the transfer of American manpower and matériel across the Atlantic, culminating in their first major engagement in the Battle of Château-Thierry in June 1...
(Reel 1) Food, fodder and equipment are unloaded at a railhead freightyard, and put into motorised and horse-drawn vehicles for the trip up to Mount Tonale and the River Piave valley. The convoys move...
The film uses actuality, graphics and animation to make the contrast between production in 1914 and 1917. (Reel 1) Factories run by the Army Training School for injured soldiers, including one run by ...
Newsreel item on a bombardment by the gunboat HMS Moth from the bank of the Euphrates, Mesopotamian Front, summer 1918.
Newsreel item on British soldiers clearing up debris in Béthune after the German retreat, Western Front, September 1918.
The ceremony takes place in a park. A crowd of Boy Scouts watches as Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, presents Cruickshank, a former scout and VC winner with the London Scottish, with a gold watch on be...
The forces are mainly from the Cavalry Corps, including not only horsemen but Austin armoured cars, improvised armoured lorries, pontoon bridging wagons and cyclists, all in a headlong rush up the roa...