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...
Medium shot of Lieutenant Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) and Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) standing in a small room. The nurse is in uniform and holds the button on Rjepkin's coat. In ...
Medium shot of an operating room. Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík) stands on the left with a syringe in his hand. Next to him are Dr. Klíma (actor: Karel Veverka) and Nurse Tonička (actress:...
Medium close-up of Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová), Lieutenant Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) in uniform, and his wife Lída (actress: Marie Rosůlková). The women are looking at each o...
View of a doctor's office. Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík) sits at a desk and Dr. Klíma (actor: Karel Veverka) sits opposite him with the newspaper Národní politika in his hand. On the des...
Medium shot of three privates: Tlamicha (actor: Theodor Pištěk), yawning Sakař (actor: Jindřich Plachta), and smiling Vyskočil (actor: Břetislav Hrstka).
Medium close-up of the wounded Corporal Bartoněk (actor: Jiří Vondrovič) with bandaged eyes and an arm in a cast with Nurse Tonička (actress: Truda Grosslichtová, in profile).
Medium shot of an operating room. Standing around the lying patient are Dr. Klíma (actor: Karel Veverka), a nurse (actress: Míla Mellanová), Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík), and another nu...
Wide shot of a hospital corridor with Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík), nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová), and Lieutenant Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský). Other patients can be seen...