WWI - Training with the British Army in Picardy, 1918

WWI - Military Training with the British Army in Picardy 1918 US 111th Infantry troop units disembark at Calais from crowded boat deck, Casino sign in background. march along dock. Officers pose. Duffle bags aka kit bags stacked on dock & loaded onto trucks. 01:33:02 112th Infantry troops draw Enfield rifles & bayonets from storage. Cleaning guns. Steam train runby w/ freight cars. 01:33:50 British troops show bayonet & trench tactics to 307th & 308th Inf. troops. Practice w/ dummys, running into trenchs & bayonetting sacks, then firing rifles & running out of rench. Hanging bayonet targets & troops advance & jab them. GOOD. 01:37:59 304th & 308th Machine Gun Battalion. Troops train w/ Vickers machine guns as others watch. Firing range practice. Inspect targets. 01:40:04 Field kitchen demonstrated. Putting fuel into field oven, soldier demonstrates collapsible chimney. 01:40:59 Men having relay race, put on gas masks at turn around point. 01:42:34 Men digging potatoes (?) in field . Motorcylce w/ sidecar & man to electric pole & climbs it.