British soldiers walking amongst enemy trenches in a no-man's land in the Balkans, during World War 1. They are reconnoitering after an allied artillery barrage that destroyed Central Powers defenses in the area and left many dead. British Highlanders are among the Allied troops seen walking through the totally destroyed defenses. Surviving Central Powers soldiers are taken as prisoners of war. Austro-Hungarian Hussars carrying a wounded soldier on a stretcher. A group of ambulatory wounded POWs, headed toward a field medical facility. British medical corpsmen treating a wounded soldier. View of field medical station where British medics are treating wounded. A soldier writes something on the bare back of another as they prepare to move toward the rear. Wounded lying on the ground in litters, as British medical Corpsmen attend to them. British soldiers carry wounded to truck for evacuation. German officers walking at the head of a group of German, Turkish, Austro-Hungarian, and some possibly some Bulgarian, prisoners of war. View from above of British officers on horseback leading the disarmed prisoners along the street of a town, where British soldiers stand along the curbside watching as they pass. Mounted British soldiers move along the sides of the walking POWs.
Allied forces bivouacked in a dry stream bed in Serbian mountains, during World War 1. (A foraging mountain goat on rock above ignores them.) Scene change shows French officers, in fortified position, looking through hand-held binoculars and tripod-mounted periscopic binoculars. A British soldier, in another fortified spot, looks through a telescope. Views of shells bursting in the hilly terrain. French gun crew firing a 75mm field piece from a position hidden in foliage. A mix of Central Powers prisoners in a compound, including, Austrian-Hungarians, Turkish, and possibly Albanian, Bulgarian and other nationalities. They eat from mess kits. Most are seated on the ground. Several relaxed French officers stand in the compound. A cook circulates amongst the seated prisoners.