A corporal and private of the Hampshire Regiment, overseen by a junior officer, use cylinders of gas to inflate medium-sized balloons. To each of these is attached a string carrying a bundle of leafle...
(Reel 1) King George V and General Sir Herbert Plumer, commanding Second Army to which the two divisions were attached, are greeted by 30th (Old Hickory) Division commander, Major-General Edward M Lew...
The King is escorted round the base by RAF officers. A groundcrew party hauls down a barrage balloon as he watches. Two other barrage balloons are seen floating side by side in the sky. The King leave...