King George V's Royal launch docks with the battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth at Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, in World War 1. The King ascends steps to the ship's deck and exchanges salutes with the Captain and officers. An Antiaircraft guns can be seen in the foreground,on deck. The King greets several other officers. Sailors march along the deck to enter a formation for the decoration ceremony. Next, a number of sailors sailors are decorated by the King, as officers, who have already been decorated, stand behind, wearing their respective awards around their necks. The king then climbs stairs to an upper deck, where he steps on a stand and addresses the ship's company, who stand in formation. Afterwards, the crew members leave the formation in single file, saluting as they pass the King on the stand. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
The British Fleet guards transports carrying American and British forces to France during World War I. Overhead aircraft keep a watch. A British convoy underway in the English Channel. View of airships overhead.
Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train passes main Westinghouse Factory in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: The Words: "Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co Machine Works," are sculpted in the stone at the top of the building. Freight trains moving in the adjoining rail yard. Smoke belches from stacks at the plant.
Officers decorate soldiers in France during World War I. French and U.S. officers converse. They shake hands. Nurses are decorated by an officer. Another officer pins medals to soldiers. He shakes hands with them.
Officers decorate soldiers in France during World War I. The officers pose outside a building. Other men standing in the background. A band plays. A man directs them. Soldiers stand at attention. Building in the background. Army nurses and soldiers stand at attention. An officer decorates the nurses. Some of the officers and the nurses standing in the balcony of a building. Others stand at the steps of the building. The soldiers stand at attention. Some of the soldiers drink water from canteens.
Medical services in France during World War I. A soldier in a hospital. A man seated at a desk looks through a microscope. A patient lying in a hospital bed. The soldier patient is shifting uncomfortably in bed and looks pale and feverish (possibly influenza or "Spanish Flu".) A doctor seated at a desk talks to a man. Pharmacy medicines on a shelf in the background. The doctor puts a thermometer in the man's mouth and checks the temperature.
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