French troops in their frontline trenches in no man's land on the Western Front during World War 1. View of officer's wrist watch as they wait for 6AM, and then charge out of their trench. View of soldiers' feet leaving the trench. Another contingent, seen leaving a trench one at a time. They move quickly across the battle-scarred landscape. What appear to be gas clouds obscure the terrain. A soldier stands by a stone wall looking through binoculars. French soldiers run across the area, toward German positions,as a line of shells burst in the far background. Two French soldiers crouch beside a smoke generator spewing black smoke across the area. French troops lying prone on the battlefield. One rises to throw a hand grenade. A soldier afixed a rifle grenade to his weapon as a squad of others advance from a shell crater. Two of the advancing French soldiers carry rolls of barbed wire with them. (WWI. WW1.)
Camera pans across buildings of French evacuation hospital set up during World War 1. Closeup of the hospital showing staff members walking between buildings. Wooden walkways have been installed to allow movement during periods of rain and mud. A line of ambulances. Drivers are crank starting two of them. Driver of the first starts, climbs aboard, and backs out. View inside a ward of the hospital. Physician and staff make rounds attending wounded soldiers. Outside, some recuperating soldiers sit with medical staff and others walk about.. Large beds of flowers are seen in the area. (WWI. WW1)
French medical corpsmen carry wounded French soldiers to a hospital railway train during World War 1. Medical staff and nurses seen on the train platform. Scene shifts to interior of a base hospital. French military officers are visiting wounded patients in a ward. Medical staff are attending to patients. (WWI. WW1)
French soldiers being decorated in a field during World War 1. Marshal Philippe Petain presents individual and unit awards to french soldiers. Closeup of French unit guidon with awards attached. Petain converses with some of the honored soldiers. (WWI. WW1)
British cavalry move from open area into encampment in woods of France, during World War I. They are seen moving along a trail in the woods. A large British force is seen bivouacked in the area. (WWI. WW1)
SA battery of British artillerymen firing 18 pounder field pieces at German forces in the Hindenburg Line, during World War 1. Change of scene shows British soldiers at side of a road as wagons of French refugees and children on foot and with bicycles, flee the combat zone. British troops, horses, vehicles,and a heavy mortar (covered) move through center of a town choked with departing refugees. Views of ammunition train moving across open fields. Stacks of heavy artillery shells at a munitions dump. Wrecked guns and equipment at the front. (WWI. WW1)
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