Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Britain sits pensively at his desk. Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine, walking together in London. King George VI stepping from a car and entering 10 Downing Street. Mobilization of British forces for war. British civilians marching casually wearing steel army helmets. A man volunteering for the Army. New recruits being issued uniforms. Others, in civilian clothes, learning to drill with rifles and then marching away from a village. Recruits in bayonet practice. Winston Churchill speaking about the tragedy brought upon Europe by Hitler (this Churchill speech was at St. James's Place, London, June 12, 1941, in an address to Allied delegates). Aerial views of the destruction of Poland by Luftwaffe aircraft of Germany. Civilian Polish victims of German bombardment. A boy and women mourning over the dead. A child being held near a bonfire to warm her. Children rescuing a few possessions from a destroyed home. Parents carrying children. Women and girls crying and in mourning for the loss of loved ones and destruction from war.
The 110th renewal rowing classic competition in London, England. The Cambridge University and the Oxford University teams participate in a boat racing competition on the River Thames starting near the Putney Bridge. Swans in the river. The Cambridge team jumps into an early lead. Cambridge defeats Oxford by 6 lengths.
Shows efforts by the Friends Relief Committee (affiliation of Quakers or Religious Society of Friends, and sometimes known as the Friends War Victims' Relief Committee) in London to provide food to starving Russians during the period of the Russian Revolution and World War I. Men carry boxes of food on carts at a dock. Food supplies are loaded on a ship. Officials stand outside a building and speak to a crowd. An official speaks. The officers stand beside the building. Ship yard workers arrange the food supplies. Sign seen on stack of food boxes beside the docks : "Friends Relief Committee. Head Office 27 Chancery Lane, London WC2. One Of Our Regular Shipments. Over 400 Tons Of Food For Starving Russia." The cargo is loaded onto the ship by crane and men.
German prisoners in Portland, England during World War II. The prisoners march from a dock to a prison camp. A Quonset hut. U.S. soldiers search the prisoners and inspect them. The German POWs march into a barbed wire stockade.
German prisoners in Portland, England during World War II. Wounded prisoners on litters are carried by U.S. soldiers. Wounded prisoners wearing bandages walk on an LST (Landing Ship Tank). They disembark from the LST. Cars parked on a shore. The prisoners come ashore and stand in two queues.
German prisoners in Portland, England during World War II. Wounded prisoners are carried on litters. Wounded prisoners and U.S. soldiers, wearing bandages, walk on an LST (Landing Ship Tank). They disembark from the LST. Litter cases of U.S. soldiers and prisoners are carried. One wounded on a litter with an eye patch. Two soldiers carry a wounded man. A group of prisoners sitting on the ground.
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