The general area of Ypres. Filmed from just outside the town itself, shells falling on buildings on the outskirts. Two Mark V tanks, one Male, one Female, both carrying soldiers, move over open countr...
A 145mm naval gun is stuck in soft ground despite all efforts to pull it clear with ropes. Finally sledges are fitted to the wheels and it is dragged clear. A squadron of Nieuport 28s parked on an air...
The formal ceremony takes place at the general's headquarters. He pins decorations on the standards of seven regiments, including that of 21st Battalion, Chasseurs (?). In Châlons, close to the headq...
I. Men of Sixth Army board a troop train at a station. Others march along roads to the battlefield, between Noyon and Amiens. Conditions are very foggy. Soldiers rest as a horsed transport column pass...
A procession of Chasseurs, led by priests and choirboys, makes a pilgrimage to a cemetery near the battle zone, where, as the civilian congregation watches, a monument is dedicated "To Our Dead".The s...
The men are French I Corps and British II Corps to the south. A mixed posed group of British and French soldiers talk with one another. British officers watch a French 75mm field gun crew opening fire...
(Reel 9) A bombardment in progress. Mk I tanks move up. Fatigue parties (described as "doctors") move forwards. Prisoners are brought in and the captured area mopped up. The German Crown Prince's head...
A German 150mm gun is towed into a wood east of Ribecourt on the Marcoing road by a Mark IV female tank HMLS 'Intimidate' (of 'I' Company, Tank Corps ?) and met by men of the Royal Artillery and (prob...