Opening slate identifies Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, Commander of British Forces, and the Right Honorable Arthur J. Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, meeting and conferring in France, during World War 1. They are seen seated side by side on a bench in a park-like setting.
Huge numbers of German 7.7 cm artillery field pieces (Feldkanones) and other artillery of various kinds, captured by Canadian forces during a battle in World War 1. Camera pans over the guns, arranged in neat rows by type, in a large storage area. Shells for the artillery are also arranged in rows on the ground in front of the weapons. Also seen on the ground are rows of machine guns. A British officer steps amongst the captured military weapons.
Historic Meeting of Britain’s King George V with French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, British Field Marshal Douglas Haig, and French General Henri-Philippe Pétain, in France, on the eve of the Armistice, ending World War 1. King George V, wearing black mourning armband, begins to organize them to pose for photographs, at the foot of some stairs. They all do some shuffling to arrange themselves with due respect to rank, etc and end up with King George V in center of front row, with Haig and Petain to his left. To his right is Marshal Foch, French General Louis Franchet D'Esperey and British General Henry Rawlinson. Complete change of scene shows a clean shaven British military officer speaking with British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. The local city mayor is with them, dressed in ceremonial robes. A statesman, in top hat stands nearby. A uniformed man carries the Mayor’s maces. Next, Lloyd George and the British officer inspect troops, walking between flanks of British soldiers holding shouldered rifles.
Palestinian workers loading bulk supplies onto British Army trucks, lined up, bumper to bumper, in the desert, during World War 1. A supervising British officer is seen briefly. Similarly, Palestinians loading British Army supplies into horse-drawn carts, at a British military encampment in the desert. As loaded carts begin to drive away, Stacked sandbags and tents can be seen in the background. A Brtish soldier appears briefly as carts leave. Next, a British soldier poses with his camel. He demonstrates how docile the animal is, by placing his arm into camel’s mouth. Palestinians are nest seen with camels at a watering hole, before they begin travel. Then, British Army soldiers are seen astride camels as they make their way in a column across the desert. A column of British Army Vauxhall 25hp motorcars moves along a desert road, of sorts, between rock outcroppings. (Preceding Slate states,” it takes a lot of gas to haul water for the men.”)
A group of French soldiers is seen standing in a trench during World War 1. Several make their way along the trench to the hulk of a German tank, turned on its side. Camera pans the exposed bottom of the overturned tank with one tread visible. Two French soldiers stand next to it. Several fallen German soldiers are seen on the ground nearby. Next, four French medical corpsmen are seen carrying a wounded soldier at shoulder height on a litter. Two soldiers move body of fallen comrade using a two-wheeled cart. Change of scene to French soldiers near their trenches at base of a steep hill, partially covered with boards. Several soldiers walk past them transporting fallen on a cart. Wounded being assisted as they leave a damaged building, possibly serving as a field first aid center. Several French soldiers standing near a comrade with a bandaged foot who leans on a large board. Behind them are shell or bomb-damaged buildings.
Allied soldiers escort German prisoners of war through utterly destroyed town. American soldiers run across open space in French village. Damaged wooden church and disabled tank seen. French soldier walks near broken wagons and dead horses. French Corpsman, with cross on uniform sleeve, looks at dead French soldier. Another soldier removes trenching tool from the fallen soldier's equipment. Lines of horses seen coming in the background. French troops begin digging trenches and fortifications.
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