French troops use teams of horses to pull howitzers to crest of hill as they prepare for offensive at Monchy during World War 1. ( WWI. WW1)
Infantry of the 1st Battalion, the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, occupy and consolidate a captured German trench in France, during World War One. Troops are seen in the trench, readying it for use.
British soldiers in France during World War 1. British soldiers take action as a gas cloud begins to envelop them in a trench on the Western Front. They don gas masks and take up firing positions. One is armed with a Lewis machine gun. Snow covers the field outside the trench, In change of scene, one soldier takes samples of the gas and analyzes them using a phosgene detector. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
British soldiers form a line and wave large hand-held "Ayrton" fans to clear gas from a trench on the front in France. They use the same procedure to dispel gas from the dug out at the end of the trench.(World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
French soldiers and engineers repairing roads in France during World War 1. They lay a number of poles to form a corduroy road. In another scene, soldiers use shovels and wheel barrows to patch holes in a road. (World War 1. WWI. WW1)
Camera pans over countless canvas-covered French army trucks in a large depot at an area well behind the front lines, untouched by combat,during World War 1. Several large buildings are seen in the background. A long line of empty army trucks with canvas covers, drives along a road, out of the depot. Buildings and trees line the background. Scene shifts to interior of depot containing stacked drums of lubricating oil. Workers inside move materials on hand carts. Scene changes again, to outdoor storage yard for gasoline. It is in containers within wooden crates, that are stacked up high in the yard. Workers use large hand trucks to move materials. (WWI. WW1)
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