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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221593-03
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1914
Country: Belgium,France
Location: Flanders
TC Begins: 07:17:50
TC Ends: 07:22:21
Duration: 00:04:31
Shipboard in heavy seas, man nearly washed overboard. Convoy of battleships. 07:18:04 Title: “...stopped the rush of the German millions..Paris; throughout that wonderful retreat...& the Battle of the Marne, where hopes of German conquest vanished - until ..ember 24th, 1914 when both sides developed a state of siege warfare in entrenchments...” 07:18:31 Art title: “With the leaden sky as their roof, in a freezing wet ditch of slimy ooze they lived...” 07:19:02 British soldiers on planks in muddy trench working, others pass by. 07:19:26 Art title: “Working like devils in the mud...” 07:19:42 Men shoveling out trench. 07:20:09 Art title: “Before snatching a few precious moments of sleep they had to pump the filthy rat-infested water from their dug-outs.” 07:20:19 Men in doorway of covered section next to ditch-like filled trench. Men digging in water. 07:21:08 Art title: “..on the alert, gripping their rifles..the fingers frozen with cold...” 07:21:36 Men in trench in rain. 07:21:56 Art title ?? 07:22:01 Riders & horses pulling caissons. MCU artillery firing. WWI; WW1; NOTE: Lack of helmets suggests ca 1914;