Queen Victoria is welcomed in Dublin, Ireland, by large crowds of well-wishers. She rides through the throngs in an open carriage, accompanied by Princess Christian and Princess Beatrice, who ride in the front of the carriage, facing her. The Queen holds a small parasol. Two uniformed guards, in kilts, ride in the rear of the carriage. Along the way, the carriage stops briefly, as the Queen accepts a large basket of flowers from two girls (possibly the twin daughters of Sir John and Lady Arnott ).
Bus passing slowly by the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC. View from the moving vehicle of the Jefferson Memorial (16 E Basin Dr SW, Washington, DC 20242, United States). Trees in a garden beside the memorial. Cars parked in front of the Memorial.
House in a recaptured village in France, during World War One. President of France, Raymond Poincare, arrives in the village with other dignitaries. Vehicles parked on the street in front of the house. He shakes hand with another person. They talk amongst themselves. They sit in a car.
British Army gunners fire 18 pounder field artillery pieces as they set up camp in a field near Monchy-le-Preux in France. Shells explode in field in front of them. A battery of hidden 18 pounders fires. A battery of 8 inch heavy howitzers in operation. Gun crew soldiers step back as a howitzer fires. They return to the gun after it has finished recoiling.
A group of battle-hardened veteran British Army artillery soldiers relax and pose for the camera. They had been in the front lines in World War I, in France, since the battle of Mons, in 1914.
British troops sit together, merrily, on the ground in front of a wooden fence in a captured French town during World War I. Above them, on the fence is a message left by retreating German troops that reads: "Gottstrafe England." (May God Punish England). During World War 1.
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