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...
A piledriver on the canal bank builds a landing stage. A road swing bridge across the canal on the section between Béthune and Givenchy opens to let IWT barge AS 174 pass through. Two mobile cranes, ...
I. Open country, very flat with a few low woods and shells on the horizon moving closer. In the foreground a Red Cross ambulance moves down a road - probably Villers Bretonneux. Small parties of Briti...
I. Soldiers haul a ditched Thornycroft lorry out into the roadside by using sheerlegs. They are passed by refugees in carts and on foot as they work. Soldiers resting and eating in an open field. Two ...
I. The La Bassée Canal sector. British troops commencing barbed wire defences in open country on 17 April. On the same day troops in Béthune (?) dig a trench-line, with shells bursting over the hous...
A New Army battalion of Royal Welch Fusiliers, 38th (Welsh) Division (attached to the Guards Division for training) arrives by bus and gets out in the Guards area. Grenadier Guards in the rubble of Ep...
(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 ...