The crowd watching is mainly civilian, men and women in summer clothes. Out in the oval enclosure soldiers in athletics shorts and vests perform exercise routines with Indian clubs and rifles, after w...
A British soldier walks through a forest of long, hooked metal poles set in concrete, probably as a form of reinforcement. A barbed wire entanglement more than fifty metres deep. An RAMC man emerges f...
Canadian transport wagons move through the streets, crowded with civilians. More civilians cross a fragile-looking plank bridge over the river, which has replaced a damaged iron bridge. Marching colum...
La Bassée from across the canal, showing narrow boats and a pontoon bridge being crossed by five British soldiers, Western Front, 3rd October 1918.
La Bassée from across the canal, showing narr...
I. Columns of British companies march into the city on 18th October. They are Liverpool Irish, otherwise 8th Battalion, King's (Liverpool Regiment) of 57th (West Lancashire) Division. The men carry fl...
Three members of the section, all from different regiments, use gas cylinders from a portable trailer to inflate two small weather balloons, using a lead weight to determine the gas pressure of each b...
The square is surrounded on all sides by people waving flags and cheering. The King and Queen are on horseback in the centre of the square, the King wearing Belgian Army uniform with a shrapnel helmet...
(Reel 1) Exercises and physical training on a parade ground. The trainees strip and re-assemble a Vickers machine gun. This is followed by a demonstration of a machine which fills cartridge belts auto...