The Mark V Double Star crosses a wide but simple trench of typical 1918 pattern. A Medium B makes the same crossing, as does a Medium C, both ways. The Medium A Whippet tank "HMLS Tarantula" gets stuc...
'THE ATTACK ON ANTWERP: Belgian infantry and artillerymen replying to the German attack on Antwerp'. Belgian troops fire from trenches at the side of a road; also shots of a gun emplacement in a field...
(Reel 1) Albert Cathedral, mid-1916. The Canadian 6th Brigade, 2nd Division, led by Brigadier-General H D B Ketchen (past German prisoners) towards the battlefield, halts to rest at La Boisselle cross...
"Reportage on what life is in the trenches on the Western Front. It questions the aim to be achieved in spite of the bloodshed and continuation of dying soldiers in the Belgian killing fields. This re...
Brief newsreel item of Scottish troops in training firing from a shallow trench, Britain, February 1915.
The "Deuxième Bataille Offensive de Verdun" opens with a bombardment. A 145mm naval gun firing under tarpaulin, showing its loading mechanism clearly. Other guns join in - a 155mm heavy howitzer, a 7...
To fight Austria, the Italian army crosses rivers, digs trenches, and builds bridges. Faced with the mountain, the troops climb, and hoist up heavy artillery.
Erster Teil. Sturmanzug, Handgranate, Drahtscheere. 1. Zwischentitel: Der Sturmanzug. 2. Zwischentitel: Wurf aus dem Stand. 3. Zwischentitel: Werferstellung. Fertigmachen. Abreissen. 21! 22! Weg! 4. Z...
Paul Wegener (on the left) in the trench, Flandern, January 9, 1915
0115 - Butte de Souain - Boyau de Jura (Marne)
01078 - Rubescourt - Front line (Somme department, Picardie) Stereoscopic glass plate from a private collection in Alsace-Lorraine.
3219 - Chevreux 1917 - at the front line (Cheuvreux?)
Wolfgang Filzinger, trench near Pontfaverger, May 1915
The battle of Zborov: A system of trenches with soldiers.
Jiří (actor: Vladimir Chinkulov Vladimírov) looks out the rench. A pillar with the barbed wire is in the foreground.
The battle of Zborov: volunteer Tomeš with a machine gun in the trench. Another soldiers helps him with the magazine.