Children in 'National Costume' welcome French troops in Lorraine during World War I. A French military officer on horseback stands in front of the crowd. A large crowd gathered on a field. Another officer on horse salutes. Soldiers sit on horses behind him.
Army Service Corps soldiers play games during military tournaments in Woolwich. The tournament is held to raise funds for Blue and Red Cross in World War I. In one game ( "horse and rider") a man, carried on shoulders of his teammate, tries to unseat an opponent carried by another. Both "rider" opponents use poles padded with boxing gloves. Another soldier exhibits card tricks at a table. A large crowd gathers for the games.
First pictures of Marshal Paul Von Hindenburg, the Iron man of Germany, during World War 1. Marshal Paul Von Hindenburg with staff officers descending steps of a government building in Germany. It is winter, with snow on the ground.
On the Western Front flame projector is the latest instrument used by French troops in WWI. French troops demonstrate a flame projector, also called, flame thrower. Flames come out of the instrument.
Allied forces begin their Somme offensive in Dompierre. Allies moving guns and supplies forward in France for the Battle of the Somme, during World War 1. A French 305mm railway gun moving on a railroad, with French soldiers riding on it and several box cars of munitions behind it. German troops, devoid of weapons and battle gear, some with their hands up, scurrying through scarred landscape, as they surrender. Artillerymen lower an entrenched French 240mm artillery gun to near zero elevation and fire it. French artillerymen work on a rail-mounted 520mm howitzer.
German Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria walking with uniformed military staff officers behind them in World War 1.