I. A company of the battalion on one side of a country road as the band marches up and turns before the camera. The assembled battalion cheers the camera. A group of three officers with the battalion ...
The 'big battle' structure of the film opens with the preparatory bombardment for the days before the attack, the Infantry marching to their final positions, the attack itself, the casualties, prisone...
(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...
Soldiers, possibly 16th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, 33rd Division, in the later stages of digging a trench. Some of the men use long poles to fix barbed wire entanglements across a small stre...
I. 'THE CYCLIST'S CORPS. The 25th County of London (Cyclists) carrying out 'An Attack' near their training headquarters in Middlesex.' Soldiers cycle past along a country road. Men fire prone from beh...
I. 'ZEPPELIN CREW'S BURIAL The charred remains of the Germans who set out to hurl death amongst defenceless women and children, being conveyed on an Army transport waggon'. RFC officers and men carry ...
I. 'DIFFICULTIES OF TRANSPORT. Some of the troubles to be overcome by the transport to keep in touch with the advancing troops.' Wagons, carts, 18-pounder artillery and a convoy of motor lorries pass ...