The Battle of Ancre

On the British Army. Reel 1, supplies are unloaded at a railhead. Brit. and Australian troops take positions. Artillery shells are unloaded and taken to gun positions in horse carts. Weapons are checked, loaded, and fired. Wounded ride sleighs to the rear. Reel 2, rations arrive at the trenches. Troops travel communicating trenches to the front. Scottish and Brit. troops begin the attack. POW's are herded to the rear and searched. Antiaircraft guns strafe Ger. planes. Reel 3 shows troops resting; ruins in Beaumont; captured positions; Brit. tanks; supply trains and troops advancing; artillery firing.