Views of World War 1 French Army and German Army forces in somewhat parallel activities; some presented in split screen. German soldiers on horses with guns in the field. French Cavalry on the move and German Artillery being moved by horses along a road. French troops attacking in battlefield. French and German artillery fire. French officers talk amongst themselves outside a telegraph station set up in a closed wagon in the field. Officers sit in the telegraph station. An aircraft being flown by aviation pioneer Hubert Latham, and another by French Lieutenant Rene Jost. French Lancers on horseback. People on the roadway.
French troops in their frontline trenches in no man's land on the Western Front during World War 1. View of officer's wrist watch as they wait for 6AM, and then charge out of their trench. View of soldiers' feet leaving the trench. Another contingent, seen leaving a trench one at a time. They move quickly across the battle-scarred landscape. What appear to be gas clouds obscure the terrain. A soldier stands by a stone wall looking through binoculars. French soldiers run across the area, toward German positions,as a line of shells burst in the far background. Two French soldiers crouch beside a smoke generator spewing black smoke across the area. French troops lying prone on the battlefield. One rises to throw a hand grenade. A soldier afixed a rifle grenade to his weapon as a squad of others advance from a shell crater. Two of the advancing French soldiers carry rolls of barbed wire with them. (WWI. WW1.)
British cavalry move from open area into encampment in woods of France, during World War I. They are seen moving along a trail in the woods. A large British force is seen bivouacked in the area. (WWI. WW1)
Queen Mary of Great Britain, is seen visiting wounded British soldiers at a hospital during World War 1. Change of scene shows her greeting British army officers at a railroad train station during World War I.
SA battery of British artillerymen firing 18 pounder field pieces at German forces in the Hindenburg Line, during World War 1. Change of scene shows British soldiers at side of a road as wagons of French refugees and children on foot and with bicycles, flee the combat zone. British troops, horses, vehicles,and a heavy mortar (covered) move through center of a town choked with departing refugees. Views of ammunition train moving across open fields. Stacks of heavy artillery shells at a munitions dump. Wrecked guns and equipment at the front. (WWI. WW1)
Opening slate identifies Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, Commander of British Forces, and the Right Honorable Arthur J. Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, meeting and conferring in France, during World War 1. They are seen seated side by side on a bench in a park-like setting.