Austro-Hungarians on the march in the battle zone, moving up past transport. They include stormtroops and a bridge building platoon. Other troops march down the roads, or wait at the roadside. Italian...
Royal Engineers start to dig a trench in open country. Men of the Machine Gun Corps (?) rest by the roadside. More soldiers dig trenches in the open. A column of horsemen, possibly 1st Cavalry Divisio...
The soldiers enter the Guildhall, followed by the Lord Mayor, who leaves his coach. Some of the soldiers improvise a Highland fling for the camera.
I. Mrs C S Peel, Director of the Women's Sectio...
The wooden huts of the hospital show various bomb blasts but little fire damage. Four coffins, covered in Union Jacks, are wheeled on trollies by soldiers. A single coffin, also covered with a Union J...
A male sergeant-major oversees WAAC clerks at desks and benches indoors. ASC and WAAC clerks sort through a complex card index file spread out over several tables (the casualty records in the banqueti...
I. A posed group of men of the battalion lying on the grass. Signallers practise semaphore on the parade ground. Stretcher-bearer teams, also on the parade ground, go through the drill of helping casu...
A posed group of the battalion. One man has a small child on his knee, to whom he is chanting nursery rhymes. The men form up for an issue of beer. Men of 'C' Company are issued with hot food from car...
The film takes a typical case, "John Brown", a clerk aged 30, single with one dependent (a sister ?) living in his own house in Catford in the suburbs of London. On the outbreak of war he attested. Af...
Medium shot of nurses Tonička (actress: Truda Grosslichtová) and Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) standing by a table in a room. Mathilde has a paletot over her shoulders and is staring fixedly s...
Medium close-up of Lieutenant Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) in profile and the cadet Severa (actor: Stanislav Strnad), who is lying on a hospital bed.
Medium close-up of Nurse Tonička (Truda Grosslichtová) and Corporal Bartoněk (Jiří Vondrovič) standing in a corridor. They are smiling at one another and she is touching his bandaged hand.
Medium shot of an Austrian officer and Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) looking at each other. The man is smoking a cigarette. Another soldier is visible behind them. In the left background i...
Medium shot of Lieutenant Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) in profile and nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová).
Medium close-up of Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) sleeping on a bed and First Lieutenant Liška (actor: František Kreuzmann) in pyjamas leaning over him.
Medium shot of Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) lying in a bed with a bandage on her left elbow. Nurse Tonička (actress: Truda Grosslichtová) is standing on the left with her hand resting o...
Medium shot of Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) standing next to a night stand in a hospital room. In the background is a window with a panoramic view of Brno.