Captured German emplacements and guns, in battlefield of World War One, in France. One of the German 5.9 inch field pieces is stenciled in paint with "2nd Essex (Pompadours)," referring to the British 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment (56th Pompadours).
British soldiers ("Tommies") relax, huddled in a huge bomb crater on a battlefield in France during World War One. British troops digging trenches and covering parts of them with corrugated steel sheets. Entrenched troops wave to the camera.
Large contingent of Australian troops marching along a road, as they return from a victorious engagement against German forces at the front in France, during World War One. The sides of the road are lined with other British troops who cheer for the Aussies.
Views from a British airplane flying above towns and fields in Europe, during World War One. The airplane skirts edge of clouds, at times. The last scene appears show a fortress on the ground below. (There is no evidence of war in these scenes.)
British engineers building a bridge to facilitate movement of British forces across the Somme River, in France, during World War One. Troops moving over another bridge, where retreating German forces had destroyed the lock gates in unsuccessful effort to flood area.
British troops in deep reinforced trenches on the Western Front in World War 1, respond to a "gas alarm" sounded on "Strombos" Horn. They don their gas masks and take up firing positions with their rifles. View from the trench through barbed wire shows partially snow-covered no-mans-land in front of the trench. A light cloud of gas passes over the soldiers and a larger cloud of gas is seen further away, in front of the trench. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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