Historic Meeting of Britain’s King George V with French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, British Field Marshal Douglas Haig, and French General Henri-Philippe Pétain, in France, on the eve of the Armistice, ending World War 1. King George V, wearing black mourning armband, begins to organize them to pose for photographs, at the foot of some stairs. They all do some shuffling to arrange themselves with due respect to rank, etc and end up with King George V in center of front row, with Haig and Petain to his left. To his right is Marshal Foch, French General Louis Franchet D'Esperey and British General Henry Rawlinson. Complete change of scene shows a clean shaven British military officer speaking with British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. The local city mayor is with them, dressed in ceremonial robes. A statesman, in top hat stands nearby. A uniformed man carries the Mayor’s maces. Next, Lloyd George and the British officer inspect troops, walking between flanks of British soldiers holding shouldered rifles.
British soldiers demonstrate bayonet and trench tactics to U.S. 307th and 308th Infantry troops in France during World War 1. British troops armed with bayonets use sand bags as dummy targets. British soldiers in a trench aim at dummy targets. A commanding officers supervises the drill operation.
British soldier explains operation of a mobile field kitchen stove, to an American soldier, during World War 1, in France. The stove wagon is hitched to a draft horse. The British soldier demonstrates how dried grass is placed into a door of the stove, to get a fire started. He then removes a lid from atop the stove and smoke emerges. He replaces the lid. The two climb on top of the field kitchen and the British soldier removes several lids to show the workings of the kitchen. Finally, he opens a clamp on the stovepipe and demonstrates how it can be collapsed for transporting. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Gas alarm during World War 1. Scene is an elaborate deep trench in France, lined with woven tree branches. American sentry sounds gas alarm while donning gas mask and lowering door on a gas-proof dugout. Soldiers in unprotected dugout come out wearing their gas masks. Gas drifts over the area as troops continue their evacuation. (WWI. WW1)
Signal rockets are seen in the black night sky, falling over no man's land, to illuminate German trenches, in France during World War I. A bright searchlight and bright artillery explosions illuminate trenches and barbed wire. U.S. 5th, 149th, and 150th Field Artillery fire guns during the day.
German prisoners of war are brought into a British trench in France during World War 1. Allied troops search the German prisoners