Crowd congregates in Paris streets and cheers on news of the armistice signed, bringing an end to World War 1. People read posters pasted on the walls of street. People drive cars on road through the crowd. Smiling, waving, happy French people hold flags of France in the background. A fountain in the background. People hold an effigy and set it on fire.
Camera pans across old established Cemetery at Sedan, France. New wooden crosses of fallen soldiers are seen on outer edges of the cemetery, which is otherwise filled with older monuments and stones marking graves of local people. (World War I. World War 1. WWI. WW1)
Officers and men of the Australian Flying Corps, who controlled the combat area, in France, where he died, give Ace German pilot, Baron von Richthofen a funeral with full military honors. Six Captains, of their Squadron number 3, serve as pallbearers, and others participate as honor guards. Pallbearers place the flower covered coffin of Richthofen (also known as The Red Baron) on a vehicle for transport to a cemetery at the village of Bertangles, near Amiens, France. There a Priest officiates as the coffin is lowered into the grave. ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) troops assemble in formation and ceremonially position themselves with heads bowed. They then raise their rifles and fire several volleys into the air, in salute to the fallen German aviator. (Reportedly, memorial wreaths were received, for the funeral, from other Allied Flying Squadrons, including one with the words, "To Our Gallant and Worthy Foe"). This was the first of several burials of von Richthofen's remains. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
British Army Engineer troops are seen laying and setting sections of railroad track in the desert, during the Palestine campaign of World War 1. The materials needed are carried by a flatcar which moves along the new track as it is installed. Several of the troops rest momentarily, next to a steam locomotive that has been backing the supply train along the track.
World War I: U.S. Army 6th Field Artillery batteries fire at German enemy positions in Exermont, Ardennes, France, across a wide field and valley. U.S. Army artillery being fired, and explosions across the field as shells impact. American doughboys hold position under heavy German shelling. View of additional artillery and horse and foot traffic on the road below in the valley, beneath the shelling. U.S. Artillery guns are rolled down the hill and moved to new positions. World War 1 U.S. Army soldiers carry wounded soldier on a stretcher, moving on a road around the bodies of two dead combatants, dead horses, and a tipped horse carriage.
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.
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