British soldiers during the Battle of Somme, World War I in France. German trenches bombarded on 1st July, 1916. Smoke rises. Soldiers of British Lancashire Fusiliers await instructions. Large group of British soldiers gathered and close-up views of the British soldiers, uniforms, and equipment being readied. Soldiers fix bayonets to their rifles and pass through communication trench to the first line. A huge mine blows up German trenches; view just after the explosion occurs (the Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt mine explosion). Royal Engineers arrive. A soldier looks through binoculars from behind sand mounds. British soldiers set up machine gun at the top of a trench parapet. Men at machine gun. Shrapnel bursts over German trench. British troops "go over the top" and launch an attack on German trenches under heavy enemy fire. Explosions occur but British soldiers continue to advance.
British soldiers during the Battle of Somme, World War 1 in France. Shells fired at British trenches as a British soldier carries a wounded comrade on his back across a trench. Two soldiers carry a wounded soldier on a wheeled stretcher along a trench.
Numerous cranes at work unloading supply ships at a terminal in Bordeaux, France, during World War 1. Railroad train moving flatcars through the terminal. Rails crisscrossing the terminal. A soldier directs operations on the busy terminal. Workers rolling barrels across the yard for loading into rail cars. Two men on a motorized tow truck,stop at a field kitchen set up on the dock and receive food in their mess kits. Soldiers are gathered around the steel cans containing hot food. A man rides down with a crane load of supplies that crews quickly move away for transport to the troops.
From "The Battle of the Somme." British Essex Regiment soldiers wash themselves up at a wayside pool in France during the Battle of the Somme. Soldiers of Seaforth Highlanders assemble for a roll call. Soldiers lined up for the roll call.
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) training in France during World War 1. Soldiers pull small mountain gun on wheeled carriage. They then remove it from the carriage, and one carries the barrel and another carries the mount and trails to firing location where they reaasemble it and begin firing it, with one placing shells in the gun and the other aiming and firing. They proceed to fire the gun while officer and other soldiers observe. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) soldiers firing a mortar during training in France in World War 1. The mortar team members pass a shell from one to another, cleaning, and arming it on the way. The last man drops it into the mortar and it fires. Immediately afterwards, as if in response to a gas alarm, they .quickly don gas masks then resume firing. A cluster of explosions occurs not far away. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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