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French troops laying and stringing communication wires on the Western Front in World War I

French soldiers removing communication wire from huge spool. Soldiers climb poles to install wires. They raise and install a tall radio antenna. Team of French soldiers unspools many strands of wire and runs them through a trench. Soldiers carrying the multiwire bundles over their shoulders as they move through a trench. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1916
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027286
French rifles in use during World War I

A French soldier shows a Lebel Model 1886 bolt action repeating rifle (French: Fusil Modèle 1886/M93 ) with cartridges laid out on a table. He loads the cartridges into its forestock tube magazine and then uses the bolt to eject the rounds. Next is shown a French Mannlicher Berthier M.1890 Cavalry Carbine. An animated sequence shows a 3-shot clip being loaded into this weapon.

Date: 1916
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027294
French hand grenades as used in World War I

Camera pans assortment of different French hand grenades lined up in a row. (one falls over.) Scene shifts to a man inserting percussion fuses into F1 grenades. Next sequence shows World War 1 French soldiers behind sand bag barriers as they practice the technique for throwing hand grenades. (World War 1. WWI. WW1)

Date: 1916
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027296
French soldiers firing rifle grenades from a trench during World War I

A group of French soldiers with rifles equipped to fire grenades. From a position low in a trench, they fire V-B rifle grenades.

Date: 1916
Duration: 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027297
French soldiers demonstrate a 58mm trench mortar during World War I

French soldiers clean the tube of a 58mm trench mortar and load a shell (bomb) equipped with fins onto the tube. Next scene shows the mortar in a trench, as one soldier lights the fuse and moves away from it. The fuse burning. ( World War 1. WWI. WW1)

Date: 1916
Duration: 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027299
French soldiers deploy 75mm trench mortars during World War I

French soldiers pull several 75mm wheeled mortars across a field and set them up for operation. (World War 1. WWI. WW1)

Date: 1916
Duration: 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027300