Infantry of the Australian 2nd Division return after being relieved by the 4th Division during fierce fighting at the front in the battle of Pozières, France, during World War I. Soldiers of the Australian 6th Brigade, 2nd Division, are seen marching back from the front, along a dirt road, as other Australian troops cheer them from an overlooking hill. Some of the returning troops ride bicycles.
Armenian troops parade on the streets of Kars in Armenia during World War 1. Soldiers march with their bayonets raised high. Two soldiers on horseback salute a high ranking officer. Civilians watch as the troops pass by.
Highlanders (British Infantry) and British Engineers unload and take up wooden trench boards up to muddy trenches in France during World War 1. Wooden grids placed along the trenches to facilitate easier movement on the muddy surface.
Rubber thigh boots provided to British troops before they enter the trenches to prevent frost bite in France during World war 1. Troops wear the boosts and enter the trenches. Troops eat and talk in a trench.
An Allied 8 inch artillery battery in France during World War 1 Grand Offensive. British troops load shell into the gun. Commanding officer writes a message on the shell before it is loaded: "From Times Square New York." Allied howitzers are fired at the enemy. A British 6 inch heavy gun is seen firing at enemy positions.
View from German front lines, as their artillery bombards Allied positions in World War 1. As shells begin to strike, some Allied soldiers are seen silhouetted against the sky, in the background, as they leave their trenches for safer positions. A battery of German 21-cm Mörser guns. Closeup of one firing. American soldiers firing a heavy artillery piece. An Allied camp with soldiers, horses and mules. Their gunners are firing a French 75 artillery piece. Scene shifts back to the German lines, where German soldiers in a bunker are firing at rapidly advancing Allied troops, spread across a wide field. German soldiers firing an Austro-Hungarian Schwartzlose M.07/12 machine gun. Allied troops running across the field of view. Two German soldiers in a trench, watch as several other German soldiers retreat back through brush and wire,towards their trench, and fall to Allied gunfire before they can reach safety. Scene goes black and then shifts to German infantry climbing out of a deep trench and running forward, over downed barbed wire, up a small hill, and moving along a zig-zag trench. Next, a German infantryman is seen lying down as he probes to cut through barbed wire in a mass of Allied obstacles. Other German soldiers jump up and throw hand grenades over the barriers. The German infantrymen then advance through the barriers. Scene shifts to German soldiers stringing wire for field communications. A German soldier speaking on a field telephone
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