French General Ferdinand Foch observes experimental mobile personnel shields (also known as “creeper tanks”) during demonstration, World War 1. French soldiers carrying wheels and parts to assemble creeper tanks. Assembled mobile personnel shields lined up neatly in a field. French soldiers assemble mobile personnel shields. General Ferdinand Foch and other French officers watch a soldier crawl into his mobile personnel shield Soldiers crawling in their creeper tanks across a field, one pulling a rope with him. A soldier crawls with his creeper tank across a simulation battlefield complete with explosions. General Ferdinand Foch observes the demonstration from afar. A soldier crawling with a mobile personnel shield near an explosion. In distance, soldier in creeper tank is seen frantically backing away from explosion.
French soldier sits on mobile observation platform while being raised into position by comrades during the First Battle of Marne in World War 1. Artillery, including French 155mm 1877/1914 L de Bange Cannons firing over the forest near Brasles, east of Paris. Soldiers running in the battlefield. Smoke covers the battlefield from artillery fire. French soldier observes from mobile observation platform. General Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre (also known as “Papa Joffre”) and military officials inspect cavalry. General Joffre inspects French infantry. General Joffre salutes and shakes hands with military officials before departing by car. French cavalry (likely the Cavalry Corps Sordet or Bridoux) charges to the battlefield.
A French soldier dresses the wound of an injured comrade during the Battle of Verdun in World War 1. Bodies of dead French soldiers, partly buried in mud, found in trenches. Two men walk past bodies of the deceased. More bodies of French soldiers are scattered in the trenches. Removal of battlefield casualties. Bodies of soldiers killed during the Battle of Verdun are shown in various stages of decomposition. French soldiers wearing the Red Crosses on their arms digging graves for dead bodies removed from the battlefield. Devastated hill in Verdun. French soldiers trudging through destroyed Verdun landscape.. Bodies of deceased soldiers and scattered wreckage. French soldiers carry away wounded on stretchers.
French troops leave Souilly, the headquarters of French Generals Philippe Pétain and Robert Nivelle, for Verdun by trucks during World War 1. Outside Souilly, General Philippe Pétain observes the trucks leaving for Verdun. Trucks drive along the Voie Sacrée ("Sacred Way”), a road that connects Bar-le-Duc to Verdun (Meuse), France. Long convoy of trucks transport troops, supplies and artillery through the Voie Sacrée ("Sacred Way ''). Trucks driving along the Voie Sacrée ("Sacred Way ''). Soldiers disembark from trucks after arriving in Verdun. Soldiers push field artillery attached to a truck.
A French soldier, wearing M15 Adrian helmets, uses binoculars to observe the battlefield from the trench during World War 1. POV Binocular view of the battlefield, with explosions from artillery. Two French soldiers stand in a trench in the middle of a forest. French troops crowd a trench. French soldiers observing their surroundings. Infantry emerge from trenches and move through a forest. Soldiers carry supplies. German soldiers on guard behind a machine gun facing the parapet of the trench. Burned trees and uneven landscape of the battlefield. A German soldier aims his gun in front of burned trees. Soldiers move carefully through the landscape of burned trees, avoiding fire from Germans. Artillery and machine gun attack from Germans. French soldiers run into trench to avoid crossfire. Explosions in the battlefield. German troops firing artillery. French infantry charge through the battlefield to attack German positions. Explosion near a barbed wire fence. German soldiers loading artillery.
British soldiers sitting on the parados of a captured German trench in World War 1. Captured German supplies are neatly stacked at the parados. Injured German soldier with his head bandaged. A British soldier lights wounded German soldier’s cigarette, then helps the German adjust his head lying down. British soldiers assist captured and injured German soldiers. Some British soldiers carry Germans on their backs or in stretchers. An injured German places his arms over the shoulders of two British soldiers. A British soldier supports his injured comrade with his shoulders. British soldier taken to first aid post. A British soldier offers cigarettes to captured Germans in the first aid station. A British soldier is treated for his wounds. Soldier puts on his uniform shirt. A soldier helps his comrade drink from his canteen. A British soldier with wounded soldiers in trench as a medic puts blanket onto a wounded soldier. Soldiers lead away patients with head and arm injuries. A medic gives a cigarette to a soldier after treating his wounds. German soldiers walking through first aid post. One steps out of line and is corrected. A wounded British soldier angrily bumps against German soldier who is overtaking him in the line.
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