Spanish generals being shown over the British sector of the Western Front, March-April 1917.
At Fourth Army headquarters, Querrieu Chteau, on 15 April 1917 General Henry Rawlinson shows the visiting generals some ...
Spanish generals being shown over the British sector of the Western Front, March-April 1917.
At Fourth Army headquarters, Querrieu Chteau, on 15 April 1917 General Henry Rawlinson shows the visiting generals some ...
British operations in the Somme offensive between the Battle of Flers-Courcelette and the Battle of the Ancre, Western Front, September-November 1916.
(Reel 1) Material from various phases of the Somme offensive ...
The Duke of Connaught reviews men of the Guards Division at Lumbres, near Wizernes, Western Front, 1 November 1916.
All three Guards brigades were at the inspection. The film opens with the men, including the massed ...
Jumbled material of the British capture of Jaffa, Palestine Front, November 1917.
I. Troops and transport camels of 52nd (Lowland) Division in the streets of El Mejdel (captured 9 November) including the well inside ...
I. (Reel 1) Craters left by the Germans in order to hinder pursuit and the flooding from the Omignon River at Caulaincourt. The wrecked sugar factory at Jeancourt. A battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment resting. A mounted patrol coming to a ...
Preparations in the Somme offensive leading to the Canadian capture of Courcelette, Western Front, autumn 1916.
I. (Reel 7) Preparations for the battle. 8-inch and 6-inch howitzers fire a bombardment. Mark I tanks, ...
The arrival of General Sir Edmund Allenby, the new commander of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, in Cairo, 27 June 1917.
Allenby's train pulls in to the station and he gets down to meet with some civilian ...
The Royal Newfoundland Regiment in billets at Berneville, Western Front, 9 May 1917.
A posed group of the regiment's officers, six lying down, at least eleven standing up. These include the commanding officer, ...
Scenes of Bethlehem, Solomon's Pool and Jerusalem, including General Allenby's visit to Bethlehem on Christmas Day, Palestine Front, 1917.
I. A long sequence of 2/4th Battalion, the Dorset Regiment, with its band ...
I. The film follows the construction of the bridge by the divisional sappers from first start in the early morning mists to completion and the first ammunition mules making the crossing.
II. A captured German 77mm field gun is used to shell ...
Views of the Mosque of Omar in Jerusalem guarded by Indian troops, Palestine Front, 1917.
A pan over the Mosque of Omar taken from the front of the Mosque of El Aska, followed by a view of the courtyard of the Mosque ...
Training and loading methods of a British Army remount squadron in Egypt, probably 1917.
The squadron exists to train fresh horses and mules for British Army war service. The horses are taught to keep at a steady ...