A ship arrives at a dock in England. U.S. Army personnel and natives at the dock. Two army personnel cut a bread loaf. A pile of bread slices.
Relates to the occupation of French towns like Chevenges by U.S. 28th Infantry Nouart by 5th Field Artillery, and 26th Infantry,and Romagne by 1st Engineers during the Meuse-Argonne offensive. Troops talk with French children who are happy to see the American Army forces.
British troops of the 4th Sussex Regiment, 53rd (Welsh) Division, marching through Bethlehem, Palestine, on December 9, 1917. Local populace watches as the troops march through the town.
British troops relax at their trench line in the Mesopotanian desert, as others interrogate an Ottoman "spy" with help of a man and a woman interpreters. The captured Turk sits on the back of a British Lanchester armored car, as the woman speaks with him. He then speaks to another interpreter standing to his right.
A caravan of British troops on camels, proceeds from the captured city of Jerusalem, to engage Ottoman forces in Palestine. They are seen moving across the desert in a line that appears to stretch for a mile. Scene changes to remains of a well and its apparatus that has been destroyed by retreating Ottoman forces.
British army in Palestine, employing a caterpillar tractor (Holt tractor) to move heavy howitzers in the desert. Troops ride on the guns and carriages. British troops encamped at an oasis.
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