This French film compiles footage shot during the early months of World War I. Images include war damage along the Oise and Marne rivers, Belgian and German positions, a Canadian unit before crossing ...
The internees play together, tossing corks into a circle to pass the time.The ambulances pull up at the military hospital and a stretcher is taken out of one with a wounded soldier on it. One of the a...
The camp is tented and quite primitive, near some woods. The soldiers wander about, none badly injured. Some nurses are visible.
Newsreel item on a British convalescent camp in France or Belgium,...
The Mayor and town council assemble outside the Town Hall and deliver speeches on the presentation of the ambulances. A local clergyman gives a prayer. The ambulances then drive past the watching sold...
Film fragment of an Australian convoy of wounded on mule-drawn litters, led by a mule-drawn ambulance, making its way over dusty hills, possibly Palestine, 1916-1918.
General Sir Herbert Plumer, GOC Second Army (back to camera) presents medals to a line of four British nurses in a field near Blendecques, Western Front, 26 June 1918.
The sports are held by convalescent soldiers wearing hospital blue uniforms, and by nurses. A man and woman in civilian clothes, well-dressed, throw sweets to the crowd of convalescents. The sports co...
I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...
Wide shot of a hospital room during doctor's rounds. In the centre, a Muslim patient in a robe and with a fez on his head sits on a bed. To the left of him stands a group of five doctors with doctors ...
Wide shot of men sitting at a table in a hospital room. Sakař (actor: Jindřich Plachta) is standing at the head of the table with raised arms, speaking to the group. Sitting to the left of him is Vy...
Medium shot of an Austrian soldier, Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík), Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová), and other doctors standing by a desk in an office.
Wide shot of an Austrian soldier, Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík), Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová), and other doctors standing by a desk in an office.
Medium shot of two nurses. Tonička (actress: Truda Grosslichtová) is holding a wash basin with a sponge and Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) is washing the face of a lying patient. In the backgro...
View of a hospital room. Infantryman Sakař (actor: Jindřich Plachta) is lying on a bed with a bandaged neck and closed eyes. Leaning over him to the left is infantryman Tlamicha (actor: Theodor Piš...
In the foreground, Lieutenant Rjepkin is lying on a hospital bed. Two doctors and Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) are standing over him. Dr. Klíma (actor: Karel Veverka) has a stethoscope i...
Medium shot of Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) in civilian clothing and Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík) in an officer's uniform. They are standing in a corridor.