Excerpts from British movie about trench warfare in World War One. Explosions occur and columns of smoke rise. British and French soldiers run across no man's land battlefield towards Montaubon. Glimpse of German troops in trench. German machine gun firing from fortified position. German troops retreating from trenches and firing back at advancing allied troops. British troops entering German trenches and chasing retreating German troops in the trenches. German troops fleeing. French soldiers crossing "no man's land" battlefield while under fire. British troops using horses to reposition and move field artillery pieces.
German Red Cross personnel march with their personal gear. Horses of a German commissary division pull large soup wagons (patterned after those used by the Barnum and Bailey traveling Circus). They also pull cooking equipment and supplies. A German manufacturing plant where 3000 of the soup wagons are being readied for shipment to the front. Several wagons are seen loaded on a railroad flat car. German soldiers at the front gather around a field kitchen and get soup from one of the wagons.
German infantrymen advance towards the war front.during the First World War. Horse drawn carriages loaded with supplies also move towards the front.
British, French and Belgian forces consolidate to confront German forces in the First World War. Artillery shells explode on a field and columns of smoke rise. British, French and Belgian soldiers emerge from a forest and charge across a field towards German positions. Artillery shells explode and billows of smoke rise up.
German Red cross personnel in France during World War I. A Red Cross dog leads Red Cross personnel to a wounded soldier. Medics examine the wounded. The wounded being carried away on a stretcher. The medics examine wounded soldiers on a field.
British soldiers moving horses and supplies through thick mud during the First World War. A soldier with his face covered with mud. A shell bursts showering British soldiers with shrapnel, as they hunker down in the mud at night. In daytime scene British infantry advances across no man's land as the unit piper plays bagpipes and marches along crest of hill in World War 1. (Slate states Piper Richardson was killed later that day and was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry.) Scenes are from a British film released post-war.