'SOUTH AFRICA IN FRANCE: Divisional Commander presenting medals to South Africans in Delville Wood'. Officer awards medals amid the devastation of the former woodland.
Investiture in Delville Woo...
Setting the Fuse caps. Before the shells are fired from the heavy guns the time fuse is set.
Crowd of cheering children. J R Clynes MP, Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Food Control, arrives and performs the opening ceremony. The children, rather camera-shy, hold jugs of soup. A fin...
The inmates are all women, at least some permanently invalided. They work at tables with paints and paper making the flowers.Columns of Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war march, escorted by Russian hor...
I. 'SOLDIERS V NURSES: The soldier inmates of the Brondesbury Hospital challenge the Nurses to a cricket match, driving down to Wembley on the coaches for the match, which the soldiers won'. The game ...
I. 'OUR NAVAL LOSSES: Ships of His Majesty's Navy that have encountered the Germans. H.M.S. Monmouth sunk by German Warships off Chili (sic).' Shots of large warship at sea. 'H.M.S. Good Hope took fir...
I. 'GALLANT DEFENDERS: The arrival of allied troops at Ostend after evacuating Antwerp'. Shots of street by quayside in Ostend where a procession of pedestrians, carts and motor vehicles (including a ...
I. Panning shot around quayside on river (estuary ?) in barren, rolling landscape. Soldiers (not British ?) sit around on the grass. In the middle distance, a large cargo ship is docked at the makeshi...