A British advance cyclist patrol is surrounded by school children who run alongside them as they move along a road on their bicycles, entering a French town, during World War One. Older townspeople walk behind.
Opening slate refers to West Africans working at Allied munitions dumps. Scene shows French Colonial Senegalese infantrymen (Tirailleurs Senegalais) carrying ammunition boxes in a huge storage dump, under supervision of British officers. Some wear steel helmets, others wear British-style caps. They walk over paths between stacks of artillery shells. One appears to have a cigar in his mouth. They are followed by Several Allied soldiers, also carrying ammunition boxes. An Allied soldier in steel helmet smokes a cigarette, while standing next to large artillery shells. View of dirt road at side of the munitions dump, with a truck backed up to it. Many Allied soldiers are seen working around the periphery of the dump throughout the film.. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
British artillery being moved forward under German shelling, during World War One. The British artillery pieces are being pulled by teams of horses, as German shells burst nearby. Soldiers are seen leading horses back to safer location after the move.
British troops sit together, merrily, on the ground in front of a wooden fence in a captured French town during World War I. Above them, on the fence is a message left by retreating German troops that reads: "Gottstrafe England." (May God Punish England). During World War 1.
British troops in deep reinforced trenches on the Western Front in World War 1, respond to a "gas alarm" sounded on "Strombos" Horn. They don their gas masks and take up firing positions with their rifles. View from the trench through barbed wire shows partially snow-covered no-mans-land in front of the trench. A light cloud of gas passes over the soldiers and a larger cloud of gas is seen further away, in front of the trench. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Two British soldiers wearing gas masks, stand beside a gas-proof dugout in a deep reinforced trench on the Western Front in World War 1. One rubs his gas mask lenses as gas drifts over the trench. Their Battalion Commander emerges from the dugout, wearing his gas mask. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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