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Title List — Realistic Set 200-3
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| 1 | Watching through periscope the effects of bursting German shells |
| 2 | A German shell expected, bomb gun section of Seaforths taking cover |
| 3 | Seaforth Highlanders firing trench mortars, showing shell in its flight in mid-air |
| 4 | Company of the Black Watch in a trench keeping below the death line |
| 5 | Officer in a deep dug-out, safe from enemy shell fire |
| 6 | One of the formidable dug-outs captured from the Germans. Bickendorf |
| 7 | Heliograph signal section of a cavalry brigade at work in France |
| 8 | Sudden alarm to a battery of artillery resting in a wood |
| 9 | The gun teams are hurriedly hooked in, and the battery moves off at a gallop |
| 10 | Battery prepared against a gas attack; firing at the German positions |
| 11 | Our guns returning with compliments the German "Evening Hate;" gun in recoil |
| 12 | Officers' refuge when shell fire becomes too dangerous |
| 12 | 11-inch shells abandoned by the Germans in their headlong flight across the Rhine |
| 13 | Bringing up reserve ammunition, a tribute to the munition workers |
| 14 | Examining the remains of Howitzer destroyed by direct hit |
| 16 | Troopers feeding their horses and resting on the march |
| 17 | A battery of Royal Field Artillery snatching a few minutes rest |
| 17 | Surrendered German submarine in the River Stour at Harwich |
| 20 | A shell-riddled and deserted village daily subjected to artillery fire |
| 21 | Examining fragments of shell in craters; buildings wrecked by shell fire |
| 24 | Inspecting the ruins of the once beautiful Richebough (sic) Cathedral |
| 25 | Staff officers of General Head Quarters mapping out plans of attack |
| 26 | F.M. Sir John French, C-in-C in France with A.D.C.'s at General Head Quarters |
| 28 | Relief map of Ypres Salient used in preparing plan of attack |
| 29 | Wire entanglements blocking the approaches to one of our defensive posts |
| 30 | A busy field telephone during an engagement |
| 32 | Seaforths filling their water bottles at a town pump before going into the trenches |
| 34 | Stretcher bearers removing a wounded officer who has been picked off by a German sniper |
| 36 | A breathless moment, Canadians leaving their trenches to rush a German position |
| 36 | The King and Queen arriving for Kitchener Memorial Service at St. Paul's |
| 37 | "Over the top", observe the expression on their faces as these lads gallantly face death |
| 38 | Although suffering heavily, they never faltered until they had taken the German trenches |
| 39 | Cutting the wire; where our gallant heros fell |
| 40 | A listening post waiting in the open for an opportunity to advance |
| 42 | British infantry driving out the remaining Germans with bombs |
| 43 | "Mercy Kamarad", Leicesters capturing a German bomber |
| 44 | One of the many "Huns" who paid the penalty for his country's crimes |
| 46 | Machine-gun of the Manchesters in action; repulsing an attack |
| 46 | Tenderly lifting a serious case. Stretcher bearers at work |
| 47 | Ambulances waiting to receive casualties from the battlefield |
| 50 | Some of the survivors of the Seaforths who have received the D.C.M. |
| 53 | Leicesters passing a French canal on the way to the firing line |
| 55 | Seaforths enjoying a dip in a French canal after a long march |
| 57 | King's Dragoon Guards rig an aerial span; scout swimming stream with rope |
| 58 | Machine-gun section of Dragoon Guards crossing stream on aerial span |
| 59 | Motor lorries leaving depot with supplies for regimental bases close behind the firing-line |
| 61 | A New Army battalion recently arrived, drilling on a Flanders farm |
| 62 | A battalion of the Leicesters resting before going into the trenches |
| 64 | Tommy's favourite pastime. A football match between a Signal Company and the Gurkhas |
| 66 | Army cooks preparing a meal for our hard fighting troops |
| 67 | Men of an ammunition column feeding the mules |
| 68 | Halt of an ammunition column en route to the front |
| 71 | Firing line of a troop of Jodhpur Lancers behind a belt of trees |
| 72 | Indian bombers throwing bombs into the German trenches |
| 73 | Eighty yards from the enemy, falling leaves clipped off by German bullets |
| 74 | Gen. Rimington, Sir Perta Singh and The Rajah of Rutlam; cavalry leaders in France |
| 75 | A field post office. The officer in the foreground was killed the next day |
| 77 | Jats wrestling; the favourite sport of our Indian fighters |
| 78 | Indian cavalry outside their billet in a French village |
| 80 | Gas helmets and rockets, new instruments of warfare |
| 81 | Air line section of the Signal Corps putting up a telegraph line along a Flanders canal |
| 83 | Gen. Sir James Willcocks and staff leaving his headquarters at Merville for the trenches |
| 84 | Gurkha battalion; C.O. inspecting Kukris |
| 85 | Our sturdy Gurkhas working on a fire and communication trench |
| 86 | Gharwalis lining reserve trenches in expectation of a German attack |
| 87 | Infantry in the front-line trenches prepared to meet a gas attack |
| 88 | First line Gurkhas storming and capturing a German trench |
| 89 | Second line Gurkhas coming up under shell fire to consolidate trench taken by the first |
| 90 | Second line consolidating the trenches while first line continues the advance |
| 91 | The Colonel points out a weak spot in the captured trenches |
| 92 | Gurkha battalion repairing trenches damaged by German bombardment |
| 93 | Clearing the remaining Germans out of the trenches by hand grenades |
| 94 | Gurkhas digging communication trenches and laying cables to connect up advanced positions |
| 95 | Stretcher bearers tenderly lifting a serious case for removal to the ambulance |
| 96 | Arrival of casualties at a Regimental Aid Post |
| 97 | Sikhs under Lieut. Smyth, V.C., returning to rest and refit after a strenuous period in the trenches |
| 99 | The ruined Cloth Hall at Ypres as it looked in 1916 (NOTE: Prob. postwar; scaffolding like 370) |
| 99 | Ypres and its ruined Cloth Hall, where British heroism shone resplendant through the darkest hours |
| 100 | Receiving letters and comforts at an Army Post Office |
| 101 | Tanks clearing the way for infantry through a mud spattered Flanders battlefield |
| 102 | South Africans prepare to defend an important wood against a gas attack |
| 103 | Smoke screen thrown out to conceal concentration of storm troops |
| 104 | In action. Hidden by a screen of foliage, our batteries put down a barrage for the infantry |
| 105 | Huge shell bursting in the enemy lines warns the Huns of an impending attack |
| 106 | A tank leads the infantry into action and breaks down the wire entanglements |
| 107 | Canadians leave their trenches to charge the enemy position |
| 108 | Second line Infantry going into action to rush a German position |
| 109 | Casualties after the charge has swept over captured positions under German shell fire |
| 110 | In the thick of a gas attack; our lads ready for the enemy |
| 111 | A party of Leicesters creeping through the captured German trenches |
| 112 | With scarcely time to conoslidate their new position, the Leicesters meet a counter attack |
| 113 | The eyes of the Army. A captured German Fokker reconnoitering over the enemy lines |
| 114 | Over the German lines, showing deep trenches, mine craters, and shell-pitted ground |
| 115 | A flooded camp behind the firing line in Flanders |
| 116 | "No Man's Land" as seen from an artillery observation post |
| 117 | After the storm and stress of battle, caring for the wounded |
| 118 | Troops and supplies are rushed from railhead to the firing line |
| 119 | Motor Ambulances with wounded, passing reserves on the way to the firing line |
| 120 | A Highland battalion passing through a French village on their way to the trenches |
| 121 | A lull in the fighting, Seaforth Highlanders with their dog, holding a front line trench |
| 122 | The Manchesters crossing a French farm on the way back to the trenches |
| 123 | A French tank assists in clearing the Germans out of a ruined village |
| 124 | Highlanders skirmishing through a ruined village linked up with our trenches |
| 125 | In the path of the Hun. Church wrecked by German shells |
| 126 | The Nave of a famous French Cathedral; an example of Hun "frightfulness" |
| 127 | The High Altar amid the ruins of the shell wrecked Richbourge Cathedral |
| 128 | The result of a bombardment; shell craters and buildings wrecked by German shells |
| 129 | How the Germans devastated France. Lille, a once prosperous manufacturing town |
| 130 | All that is left of the village of La Bassee, scene of many historic battles |
| 131 | French children watching British Hussars passing through their village |
| 132 | Hussars turning off a road to rest and water their horses |
| 133 | Tommy's mount receives first attention. Carrying water from nearby rivulet |
| 134 | R.E. "straffing" machine just off for a scrap with the German planes |
| 135 | An observation balloon starting off to spot for the artillery |
| 136 | An intrepid observer meets with a mishap and makes a hurried descent |
| 137 | Motor Transport awaiting the order to advance |
| 137 | The aftermath. Casualties on the field after an attack |
| 138 | Spoils of war. Hundreds of captured German guns in a gun park at Brussels |
| 139 | Scottish troops examining remains of the first British aeroplane brought down by Germans |
| 140 | Huge armour-plated battleplane, which carried seven guns, captured from the Germans |
| 141 | Interior of the commodious hospital at Brighton |
| 142 | A battalion of Anzacs marching through Adderley Street, Cape Town |
| 143 | Transports with reinforcements arriving at a French port |
| 144 | Transport with the "Old Contemptibles" from India meets a man-of-war in the Mediterranean |
| 145 | Cable-section laying cable; each wagon holds several miles |
| 146 | Lord Kitchener with Lord Mayor inspecting the Guard of Honour at Guildhall |
| 147 | Soldiers interested in the wreckage caused by German bombardment of Lowestoft |
| 148 | The wrecked Zeppelin brought down by our aviators near the coast of Essex |
| 149 | Enormous propeller of the great Zeppelin, now only a mass of twisted girders |
| 151 | Indentation in the ground made by one of the crew falling from the Zeppelin |
| 152 | Inns of Court O.T. Corps training in the snow |
| 153 | Henry Street, Dublin, as it appeared after the rebellion |
| 154 | His Majesty inspecting the shells at Holmes and Co. Ltd., Munitions Works. Hull |
| 155 | Her majesty walking through the Guard of Honour of nurses of R.N. Hospital, Hull |
| 156 | England's great welcome to American troops, first contingent marching through London |
| 157 | A dispatch rider with urgent message held up by snow |
| 158 | Taking stores ashore at Salonica for our Balkan Army |
| 159 | Our magnificent infantry in the firing line in the Balkans |
| 160 | The dying bugler sounds his last call in an assault on a Balkan hillside |
| 161 | Our gallant defenders of the Nile awaiting orders, Egypt |
| 162 | Our fearless fighters awaiting orders to advance on a Gallipoli hillside |
| 163 | The true bull-dog rush of our troops at the Dardanelles |
| 164 | A last drop of water to a dying comrade amid the clash of battle, Dardanelles |
| 165 | On a long march through torrid heat to Baghdad |
| 166 | Early morning camp fires and breakfast in the Persian Gulf |
| 167 | Machine-gun section and Infantry crossing a flooded river by pontoon bridge |
| 168 | Our gallant fighters charging over pontoon bridge constructed in four hours |
| 169 | In the firing line with the King's bravest, Mesopotamia |
| 170 | Beneath the Star and Crescent, Turkish troops for the defence of the Holy Land |
| 171 | Capture of Jerusalem—Troops entering the city by the Jaffa Gate |
| 172 | Jerusalem the Holy City, goal of the Crusaders, rescued forever from the Turks |
| 173 | Spoils of war. Gun and stores captured from the Turks, Palestine |
| 174 | Triumph of our Navy. Surrendered battleships and cruisers of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow |
| 175 | German battle cruiser "Derfflinger," which hauled down its flag at sunset to Admiral Beatty |
| 176 | Caged at last. Fleet of murderous submarines secure in a Channel Port |
| 177 | Interior of forward compartment of U boat 135, showing torpedo and four torpedo tubes |
| 178 | South African Infantry entraining at Capetown en route to East Africa |
| 179 | Scouts feeling their way through the forests of East Africa |
| 180 | British Troops from invading columns refresh themselves at a waterfall |
| 181 | Defending a block-house against the Germans, East Africa |
| 182 | An anxious moment: taking cover from a threatened attack |
| 183 | Our gallant Infantry charging the German positions, East Africa |
| 184 | A stiff bit of fighting on the Ngura hillsides, East Africa |
| 185 | Mounted brigade under Gen. van Deventer, executing a far-flung encircling movement |
| 186 | Afternoon tea under difficulties; each man carries his own protection against bees |
| 187 | South African gunners with their pet zebra in East Africa |
| 188 | "Tenderly they lifted him." Hospital train in East Africa |
| 189 | Troops enjoying a bathe after a long day's march; crocodiles making the river too dangerous |
| 191 | Presentation of V.C.'s and other honours by His Majesty to battle-scarred heroes in Hyde Park |
| 192 | Captured German gun outside King Albert's Palace, Brussels |
| 194 | One of the many armed motor boats patrolling the Rhine. Sir Douglas Haig landing at Cologne |
| 195 | F.M. Sir Douglas Haig, inspecting sailors who took part in the raids on Ostend and Zeebrugge |
| 196 | Our "Watch on the Rhine." Infantry guarding one of the bridge-heads, Cologne |
| 197 | Off to Blighty. Troops embarking on a steamer at Cologne to return to England |
| 198 | Col. Sir David Henderson and Lord Islington, who accepted a battleplane presented to India by Leeds |
| 198 | The first glimpse of German territory. British transports proceeding up the Rhine |
| 198 | Peace celebrations in London. Canadians marching past |
| 199 | Victory march of London's Own Regiments. Saluting the Lord Mayor |
| 200 | Peace Procession of Indian Troops saluting the Cenotaph to "The Glorious Dead" |
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