During World War I (and near timeframe of Russian Revolution of 1917), view of Russian General Lavr Kornilov and Minister of War Alexander Kerensky coming down through stairs in Petrograd, Russia. They salute and greet other officers, some Russian and some French, including General Joseph Joffre. Russian and French Troops marching. Russian and French Generals review troops.
British troops firing an 18 pounder field piece. A battery of 18 pounders lined up and firing near a tree line. Each gun rolls back from recoil after firing. British 18 pounder artillery firing from variety of places, including covered entrenched positions; open field positions; and camouflaged positions. A British 127mm (60 pounder) heavy field artillery piece being fired. British BL 6 inch 26cwt howitzers being fired. Field artillery firing in salvos from hidden positions. A field piece firing from a barn. A 9.2" BL Mk1 Siege Howitzer firing. A battery of 60pdr Mk1 Field Guns firing from behind a berm. British 18 pounders firing in a field. A 9.2" Railway Mounted Gun firing. A battery of British 8-inch howitzers firing. Troops digging trenches near bodies of fallen soldiers. Artillery troops moving field artillery by horses. A British siege mortar firing. Explosions in no-mans-land from artillery. Troops taking a meal break in a trench. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Turkey declares War and formally enters World War 1, on November 4, 1914. Turkish military Governor of Palestine, Djemal Pasha, and ministers are seen leaving the government building in Jerusalem. Turkish mobilization begins. People show enthusiasm. Crowds are seen including a few soldiers, some on horseback, and people beating drums and marching with massed flags.
Women in the war effort, working at commercial labor jobs in the United Kingdom during World War 1. Opening scene shows women paper hangers at work. Two apply glue to strips of wallpaper laid out on boards across wooden supports. Two others are applying the wallpaper on a wall. Change of scene shows about a dozen women, wearing aprons, working as a team to clean windows in a railroad passenger car in Britain. They each climb a step ladder to one of the car windows and work in parallel cleaning adjacent windows simultaneously with cloths.
Views from a British airplane flying above towns and fields in Europe, during World War One. The airplane skirts edge of clouds, at times. The last scene appears show a fortress on the ground below. (There is no evidence of war in these scenes.)
Opening slate refers to West Africans working at Allied munitions dumps. Scene shows French Colonial Senegalese infantrymen (Tirailleurs Senegalais) carrying ammunition boxes in a huge storage dump, under supervision of British officers. Some wear steel helmets, others wear British-style caps. They walk over paths between stacks of artillery shells. One appears to have a cigar in his mouth. They are followed by Several Allied soldiers, also carrying ammunition boxes. An Allied soldier in steel helmet smokes a cigarette, while standing next to large artillery shells. View of dirt road at side of the munitions dump, with a truck backed up to it. Many Allied soldiers are seen working around the periphery of the dump throughout the film.. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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