A history of the Great War, focussing on troops from the Empire.
An opening title outlines the scenes depicted within the film - 'Canadians to Salisbury Plain, England. Indians to Marseilles, France. New Zealanders ...
Horse racing in Calcutta.
Lord Chelmsford presenting colours to the 5th Calcutta battalion.
ACTUALITY. The arrival in Calcutta of a Handley Page aircraft after the flight from England.
Main title (7). "The arrival in Calcutta of the Handley Page biplane" (13). LS of the biplane in flight (30). The biplane lands and taxies to a ...
Section only, dealing with Canada. Scenes in Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Niagara Falls, Winnipeg, Saskatoon. Cowboy breaking a broncho at Calgary.
General Bailloud decorates three soldiers of British 7th Mounted Brigade at Ismailia, Egypt, 1 August 1917.
A street scene, civilians, mainly dressed in white, walk along the pavement. A car bearing General Bailloud ...
Spanish generals being shown over the British sector of the Western Front, March-April 1917.
At Fourth Army headquarters, Querrieu Chteau, on 15 April 1917 General Henry Rawlinson shows the visiting generals some ...
British operations in the Somme offensive between the Battle of Flers-Courcelette and the Battle of the Ancre, Western Front, September-November 1916.
(Reel 1) Material from various phases of the Somme offensive ...
The Duke of Connaught reviews men of the Guards Division at Lumbres, near Wizernes, Western Front, 1 November 1916.
All three Guards brigades were at the inspection. The film opens with the men, including the massed ...
Jumbled material of the British capture of Jaffa, Palestine Front, November 1917.
I. Troops and transport camels of 52nd (Lowland) Division in the streets of El Mejdel (captured 9 November) including the well inside ...
I. (Reel 1) Craters left by the Germans in order to hinder pursuit and the flooding from the Omignon River at Caulaincourt. The wrecked sugar factory at Jeancourt. A battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment resting. A mounted patrol coming to a ...
Preparations in the Somme offensive leading to the Canadian capture of Courcelette, Western Front, autumn 1916.
I. (Reel 7) Preparations for the battle. 8-inch and 6-inch howitzers fire a bombardment. Mark I tanks, ...
The arrival of General Sir Edmund Allenby, the new commander of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, in Cairo, 27 June 1917.
Allenby's train pulls in to the station and he gets down to meet with some civilian ...
The Royal Newfoundland Regiment in billets at Berneville, Western Front, 9 May 1917.
A posed group of the regiment's officers, six lying down, at least eleven standing up. These include the commanding officer, ...
Scenes of Bethlehem, Solomon's Pool and Jerusalem, including General Allenby's visit to Bethlehem on Christmas Day, Palestine Front, 1917.
I. A long sequence of 2/4th Battalion, the Dorset Regiment, with its band ...
I. The film follows the construction of the bridge by the divisional sappers from first start in the early morning mists to completion and the first ammunition mules making the crossing.
II. A captured German 77mm field gun is used to shell ...
Views of the Mosque of Omar in Jerusalem guarded by Indian troops, Palestine Front, 1917.
A pan over the Mosque of Omar taken from the front of the Mosque of El Aska, followed by a view of the courtyard of the Mosque ...
Training and loading methods of a British Army remount squadron in Egypt, probably 1917.
The squadron exists to train fresh horses and mules for British Army war service. The horses are taught to keep at a steady ...
Scenes in Jaffa under British occupation, Palestine Front, probably late 1917.
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being ...
Mixed film of 60th Division at Jerusalem and the ANZAC Mounted Division at Jericho, Palestine Front, late 1917.
A portrait shot of an unidentified junior officer of the Australian Light Horse. Next an inspection of ...
Men of the Newfoundland Regiment, just out of the line, marching to their rest billets, Western Front, possibly May 1917.
The marchers, in greatcoats and helmets, are very muddy. A considerably smarter marching ...
The funeral of Hussein Kemal, first Sultan of Egypt, in Cairo, 10 October 1917.
The chief mourner is the Sultan's brother and successor, Ahmed Fuad I. The road to the palace has many spectators, and British soldiers ...
A contingent of the Egyptian Labour Corps from recruitment in Egypt to arrival and work in France, 1917.
A pan of the assembly camp in Egypt, tented and open, where the "recruits of all provinces dressed in various ...
The prisoner of war camp at El Maadi (or Heliopolis ?) in Egypt for Turkish other ranks prisoners, 1917 (?).
Views of the camp, showing that "prisoners have ample room for exercise". The prisoners' band of mandolins, ...
