Men of various regiments board a troopship in a French port. The ship moves off and clears the harbour mouth accompanied by a P Class patrol boat. In the Channel lifebelts are issued "in case of a str...
'5000 CANADIANS LEAVE FOR HOME: S.S. Olympic's historic departure from Southampton'. Cheerful soldiers mill about on quayside, and crowd onto the walkways of SS Olympic. Caption: 'Sir Edward Kemp (on ...
(Reel 1) "Mr Briton" is a pillar of the community, with a wife and daughter, a cook, a maid and a gardener. His son Tom is with the Army in France and his daughter Mabel is an Inspector of Female Labo...
I. The first main theme is civilian recruits volunteering for the ASC outside the Central Recruiting Office in Whitehall, London. They are marched to the railway station. Arriving at a suburban statio...
The hospital ship is at anchor, with other vessels in the far distance. On the bridge a nurse, assisted by a sailor, is handling the wheel.Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, wife of Pr...
Moroccan lancers and foot soldiers parade in the courtyard of a mud-walled fort, then march out into the desert for the coast.The young soldiers, and French Boy Scouts, march in salute past the statue...
The film contrasts young men leaving factory gates, "still at home" with older men "who have to go to war" while their wives and families wait behind. A parade of drill sergeants shows that they are a...
(Reel 1) The departure of the Archduke (later Emperor) Karl with General Conrad von Hötzendorf from Vienna to inspect Austrian troops in the Tyrolean region, close to the Italian Front. Outside a hun...