The item starts with a notice saying that profits from the newsreel all go to service charities. Then the soldiers are shown bringing the full coaltrucks out onto the surface of the mine. The coal is ...
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...
The procession includes acolytes, banners, and the knights themselves wearing cloaks marked with the cross of their order.A difficult horse has been fitted with a complicated harness attached to a pos...
Close to Villers Bretonneux the tank 'Elfriede', victim of the first tank-to-tank engagement on 24th April, lies on its side with its track mechanism clearly visible.A view of the mountain area. The P...
The villa of Berti Soderini at Nervesca, containing frescoes by Paolo Veronese, shows extensive damage as the result of an Austrian bombardment, "the Hun touch".
Newsreel item on damage done by A...
Clémenceau uses neither helmet nor gasmask. He begins at a senior officers' headquarters and goes down into the trenches to talk to the troops.
Newsreel item on Prime Minister Clémenceau visiti...
Lloyd George's car pulls up outside the building entrance and he hurries inside. He is followed by a senior US officer, possibly General T H Bliss.
Newsreel item on the arrival of Lloyd George at...
A pan over the city from across the river, followed by close-ups of the cathedral showing shell damage. According to the caption the cathedral was "spitefully shelled" by the Germans after their "defe...