Reportage about a visit from the German emperor, during the First World War, to the front in Northern France and Ghent.
The forces are mainly from the Cavalry Corps, including not only horsemen but Austin armoured cars, improvised armoured lorries, pontoon bridging wagons and cyclists, all in a headlong rush up the roa...
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...
An unarmed Mark IV Male crushes barbed wire as soldiers mark its progress. An unarmed Mark IV Female comes up to the camera. Tank crews perform maintenance on "HMLS Daphne" (from IWM 116 BATTLE OF THE...
View down the length of a straight road lined with trees. A British staff car, probably the cameraman's, is parked by the road, and an officer watches, back to camera, as lines of refugees come up the...
I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on the march of half of 38th (Jewish) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, past the Lord Mayor in London, 4th February 1918. II. Spanish language version of a new...
(Reel 25) The episode starts with 'Justice'. The opening states that this was "the great final offensive, in which the whole might of Britain's arms was concentrated, with an overwhelming force, upon ...
The main street of the village is almost undamaged except for a prominent shell hole in the side of one barn. A British Cavalry signals section of four men, possibly Scots Greys, crouches in an open f...