A history of the Great War, focussing on troops from the Empire.
An opening title outlines the scenes depicted within the film - 'Canadians to Salisbury Plain, England. Indians to Marseilles, France. New Zealanders ...
Horse racing in Calcutta.
Lord Chelmsford presenting colours to the 5th Calcutta battalion.
ACTUALITY. The arrival in Calcutta of a Handley Page aircraft after the flight from England.
Main title (7). "The arrival in Calcutta of the Handley Page biplane" (13). LS of the biplane in flight (30). The biplane lands and taxies to a ...
Section only, dealing with Canada. Scenes in Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Niagara Falls, Winnipeg, Saskatoon. Cowboy breaking a broncho at Calgary.
General Bailloud decorates three soldiers of British 7th Mounted Brigade at Ismailia, Egypt, 1 August 1917.
A street scene, civilians, mainly dressed in white, walk along the pavement. A car bearing General Bailloud ...
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, ...
