French soldiers building a wooden-reinforced trench during World War I. Wooden planks stretched across the trench opening. Boards being handed down to a worker in the trench who appears to pass them toward a tunnel opening. Buckets handed back and forth from the trench diggers to the soldiers outside the trench. French officers supervise the work.
French troops moving a large gun barrel on a small gauge railway during World War 1. Men ride in open cars behind train engine. Troops assembling a 370mm railroad howitzer and then raising and lowering its camouflage-painted barrel. Railroad trains passing through woods. A French 320mm railroad gun covered by camouflage netting. Gun crew members clamber aboard. Army gunners rapid-firing a French 75 artillery field piece covered by camouflage net. French soldiers passing spent 75mm shells from a wagon and tossing them into a huge pile. View of the pile and of the larger munitions depot in which it sits. A small gauge rail is seen along the ground in the depot. French artillery and caissons being pulled by horses, past the pile of spent shells. Turret of a railway howitzer turning. Exploding shell from the howitzer. French gunners firing a 155mm field howitzer (Canon de 155 Mle 1917 Schneider C). Views of a French 400mm railway howitzer firing. What looks like a small old navy cannon firing in the field. French coastal batteries firing. A 320mm rail gun firing. No man's land and shells exploding in distance. A rail gun at the rear of a freight train, firing. Numerous scenes of French rail guns of various types and sizes firing. (WWI. WW1)
German prisoners of war move through a trench on their way to an internment point. The are moved along, single-file under French military guard, past several French officers, and then marched along a dirt road, under guard by mounted French soldiers. A huge number of German prisoners enter a fenced open air enclosure. Several are seen being interogated by A French officer. They are formally registered and processed by French military administrative personnel. German prisoners receive food from cooks at an outdoor mess. A large gathering of prisoners rise en masse at a command. Closeup of prisoners looking well cleaned and fit. Closeup of prisoners trying to stay warm in their overcoats. A German prisoner wearing eyeglasses and contentedly chewing a large piece of bread, while holding his mess kit with the other hand. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Camera pans across buildings of French evacuation hospital set up during World War 1. Closeup of the hospital showing staff members walking between buildings. Wooden walkways have been installed to allow movement during periods of rain and mud. A line of ambulances. Drivers are crank starting two of them. Driver of the first starts, climbs aboard, and backs out. View inside a ward of the hospital. Physician and staff make rounds attending wounded soldiers. Outside, some recuperating soldiers sit with medical staff and others walk about.. Large beds of flowers are seen in the area. (WWI. WW1)
French medical corpsmen carry wounded French soldiers to a hospital railway train during World War 1. Medical staff and nurses seen on the train platform. Scene shifts to interior of a base hospital. French military officers are visiting wounded patients in a ward. Medical staff are attending to patients. (WWI. WW1)
Contingent of French infantry, as seen through a corn field, marching with shouldered rifles and fixed bayonets. Scene shifts to a huge French military parade across an open field. Closeup of one cadre of soldiers pushing bicycles. Units of French cavalry, on horseback, canter in formation, raising dust as they pass. French artillery units pass with their field pieces and caissons pulled by teams of horses. (WWI. WW1)
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