Royal Engineers start to dig a trench in open country. Men of the Machine Gun Corps (?) rest by the roadside. More soldiers dig trenches in the open. A column of horsemen, possibly 1st Cavalry Divisio...
A very brief scene of British soldiers and French civilians walking along a street, possibly Arras. A Mk IV Female tank, with two soldiers riding on it, moving away across a field. A Highland battalio...
Soldiers, possibly 16th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, 33rd Division, in the later stages of digging a trench. Some of the men use long poles to fix barbed wire entanglements across a small stre...
British and French troops camped in woods, with one man being shaved, probably close to Boves. French soldiers drive two abandoned cows in past British 18-pounders. A French armoured car of II Cavalry...
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...
Gun limbers and GS wagons move up a sunken road in the rear areas of the battlefield. German prisoners are marched back in column of twos along the road, passing the horsed transport. A horsed vehicle...
Firstly, a column of Infantry marching through a town showing shell damage - the light values have been set wrongly and the film is far too dark. This is followed by British, or possibly Canadian, sol...
I. A battery of Field Artillery in medium shot moving rapidly across country, followed by a close-up of the last two guns passing a small hut at the trot. A stationary Medium A Whippet tank (B37, poss...