Underground life at Fort Vaux, after it was recaptured from the Germans, during World War I. The fort has obviously suffered varying degrees of damage in the course of battle. French soldiers inside the fort. Medics treat a wounded soldier. A soldier talks on radio. Another soldier sits nearby. The Germans continue attempts to recapture the fort themselves, and fire artillery shells that burst around the fort. Smoke arises due to firing.
Soldiers prepare for the battle in Verdun during World War I. They place an artillery in a hide out. Houses in the background. Armored train on the railway track. Soldiers march on a street. Damaged buildings and rubble along the sides of the street.
Scott soldiers prepare for the battle during the World War I. Scottish infantry passes through Mametz. Houses along the sides of street. Wreckage in the area. Soldiers walk in the ruined area. Trees in the background. Telephone wire is laid to establish communication. Soldiers stand in the rubble and fix the wire to a broken wall. Troops walk in an abandoned German trench.
War materiel being unloaded from the freighter "Anglo-Mexican" at French port in Bordeaux, during World War 1. Railroad trains at the port. Derricks move the supplies, onto railroad flat cars at the port. They unload caissons and crates of artillery equipment.
Battle of the Somme, in World War 1.Two batteries of Royal field artillery moving to a position beyond Mametz, over battlefield where Gordons' and Devons' suffered losses during a charge on a ridge near Mametz. Horses pull numerous British artillery guns and limbers. The artillery assembling at the new location.
The British Dressing Station for slightly wounded at Minden Post, during Battle of the Somme, in World War 1. Medics providing first aid to the wounded. Watching in the background are several soldiers of the 24th Oldham (Pioneers) Battalion, awaiting orders to advance and occupy captured German trenches. German curtain artillery barrage outside the Minden Post. Their shells exploding in a line across the battlefield. A lone British soldier standing in the remains of British fire trenches wrecked by German high explosive shelling, minutes before. British patrol moving cautiously and stepping over barbed wire, in no-man's-land to clear the area of German snipers and hidden machine guns. They move along line of captured trenches checking for German soldiers hidden in dugouts.
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