Highlanders (British Infantry) and British Engineers unload and take up wooden trench boards up to muddy trenches in France during World War 1. Wooden grids placed along the trenches to facilitate easier movement on the muddy surface.
Rubber thigh boots provided to British troops before they enter the trenches to prevent frost bite in France during World war 1. Troops wear the boosts and enter the trenches. Troops eat and talk in a trench.
An Allied 8 inch artillery battery in France during World War 1 Grand Offensive. British troops load shell into the gun. Commanding officer writes a message on the shell before it is loaded: "From Times Square New York." Allied howitzers are fired at the enemy. A British 6 inch heavy gun is seen firing at enemy positions.
Opening few seconds show American General John J. Pershing viewing a grave marker at a fresh cemetery in France during World War I. Next scene shows Australian troops dig trenches in France during World War 1. Australian troops at a destroyed railroad yard. Group of French men and women and children civilians pose for the camera, while British troops stand in background. Close up of an old French woman. The elderly French woman is talking and appears to be expressing thanks to the Allied troops and potentially grief from the devastation of the war. Soldiers on foot pass by a bomb wrecked French town with buildings reduced to piles of rubble from shelling. British troops and supplies on horse carts pass by the streets of the demolished town. British lancer cavalry regiment passes by on horseback, with lances raised. New Zealand soldiers march on railroad tracks to board a train.
Arrival of an Allied troop transport ship at a port in France during World War I. British troops disembark and mobilize wheeled carriages, horses, and troops on docks. Troops from New Zealand board a train bound for the war front. British troops march on a road in France.
King Albert I of Belgium, Foreign Minister Charles de Broqueville and Jules Van den Heuvel at an airfield in Belgium during World War 1. Kings pilot and King Albert I enter the Kings plane. People gather at the airfield to bid farewell. The plane readies for takeoff and departs.
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