A sentry stands outside British Headquarters in the recaptured village of Roye, in World War One. People walk on street. Houses along the street. British and French flags fly from some of the buildings. Two British soldiers befriend an extended French family standing outdoors. One of them holds up a small French child and helps him write on a wooden locker with chalk.
British sentry stands near a gas-proof dugout at the end of a deep reinforced trench on the Western Front in World War 1. Two stretcher bearers arrive carrying a soldier gas victim. The sentry opens a door to the dugout, and helps them carry the victim inside. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Shows the amount of food consumed by French army during the war. Woman in a bread factory. Many people engaged in the processing of bread in the factory. For their wine consumption, lacs of cannes in the field. Train supplying wine. For their meat consumption, many animals standing in the field. Train supplying vegetables for their consumption.
U.S. 1st Division troops on the Western Front during World War I, during a break in battle. Two soldiers stand amongst war debris at the front. One holds something up in his hand. The other holds a mortar round in his hand. A soldier sits on edge of a crater, with a Vickers medium machine gun in his lap. Scene shifts to a soldier playing with a pet pig. U.S. soldiers standing in a pay line. A beautiful home in a French residential district. American Army officers pose with a French officer, for a photographer. U.S. cavalrymen, accompanied by a French soldier, ride on horseback in a French town.
A U.S. Army lineman of the 302nd Engineers, is transported in the sidecar of a motorcycle, on his rounds to check communication lines. They arrive at one stop where the lineman climbs a pole containing 16 lines. He sits atop the multiline pole and secures one of the lines. Then he comes down and signals to his motorcycle driver to accompany him to the next pole. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
View from German front lines, as their artillery bombards Allied positions in World War 1. As shells begin to strike, some Allied soldiers are seen silhouetted against the sky, in the background, as they leave their trenches for safer positions. A battery of German 21-cm Mörser guns. Closeup of one firing. American soldiers firing a heavy artillery piece. An Allied camp with soldiers, horses and mules. Their gunners are firing a French 75 artillery piece. Scene shifts back to the German lines, where German soldiers in a bunker are firing at rapidly advancing Allied troops, spread across a wide field. German soldiers firing an Austro-Hungarian Schwartzlose M.07/12 machine gun. Allied troops running across the field of view. Two German soldiers in a trench, watch as several other German soldiers retreat back through brush and wire,towards their trench, and fall to Allied gunfire before they can reach safety. Scene goes black and then shifts to German infantry climbing out of a deep trench and running forward, over downed barbed wire, up a small hill, and moving along a zig-zag trench. Next, a German infantryman is seen lying down as he probes to cut through barbed wire in a mass of Allied obstacles. Other German soldiers jump up and throw hand grenades over the barriers. The German infantrymen then advance through the barriers. Scene shifts to German soldiers stringing wire for field communications. A German soldier speaking on a field telephone
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