Infantry of the 1st Battalion, the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, occupy and consolidate a captured German trench in France, during World War One. Troops are seen in the trench, readying it for use.
A group of battle-hardened veteran British Army artillery soldiers relax and pose for the camera. They had been in the front lines in World War I, in France, since the battle of Mons, in 1914.
A British soldier reads the war news to people in France. Houses in the village. Local people gather around to hear the news.
British troops sit together, merrily, on the ground in front of a wooden fence in a captured French town during World War I. Above them, on the fence is a message left by retreating German troops that reads: "Gottstrafe England." (May God Punish England). During World War 1.
British gunners firing a 9.2 inch howitzer in France, during World War One. The gun is set up in a large excavated area containing war materiel, such as artillery and caisson wheels. French houses are seen on a road overlooking the gun position.
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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