Realistic Travels

• Daybreak on Vimy Ridge! after our dogged and impetuous assault on the height, April 9th, 1917
• Gunners, suspicious of an approaching "Taube", don masks as protection against German gas shells
• Rapid fire! Having found the range, our guns-one is seen in recoil-make it hot for the Bosche
• Out of action! remains of one of our howitzers which was blown up by a direct hit
• London Territorials passing a ruined house on the shell swept La Basse Road
• A direct hit from our Monitors off the Belgian coast wipes out a Hun defence battery, Meriakerke
• When the sluices were opened at Nieuport, floods and barbed wire brought disaster to the Hun troops
• Indian bombers holding an important sector near Neuve-Chapelle come under Bosche shell fire
• French graves smashed by German shell fire; a German sniper was discovered hidden in a coffin
• A fine charge by the Leicesters baffles the Kaiser's bid to wipe out the Old Contemptibles, Ypres
• The price of victory!-Brave lads who fell in an early morning raid on the Hun lines
• Tenderly lifting a serious case. Stretcher-bearers at work
• Where the Flower of our Army hurled back the Prussian Guards, Beury Chateau, Festubert
• Giving water to a wounded pal beside a Hun blockhouse shattered in our advance at Hooge, Ypres
• Uncovering men who fell contesting the crater at Zouave Woods, stormed by the irresistable 6th Div.
• The Chalk Pits at Loos, seized and held by 2nd Brigade of Guards against furious counter attacks
• Haughty Prussians with machine-guns captured by "Old Contemptibles" in our advance at Pozieres
• Ready for the great Somme push, officer and signallers keep a sharp look-out over the Sausage valley
• Cautiously working their way across the shell-swept plains of Picardy in the great Somme push
• Over the top, amid bursting gas and tear shells, in a determined assault on the fortified Somme villages
• H.E. shells bursting in Mametz Wood, hotly contested with the Prussian Guard, finally taken July, 1916
• Delville Wood, shattered in fierce struggles by the S. Africans, who heroically resisted fierce attacks
• After the assault on Mouquet Farm, Thiepval Ridge, taken by our matchless infantry at heavy costs
• When the thaw set in on the Somme, our artillery ploughs its way thro' mud and water to Gommecourt
• Reinforcements going forward thro' communication trenches to support men holding out at St. Julien
• Our troops charge forward into Bernafay Wood and clear the Bosche out of their entranchments
• North Country troops bomb Hun machine-gunners out of their lairs in Polygon Wood, September, 1917
• After weeks of weary fighting for the fateful Menin road, the victors and the vanguished both happy
• Attending to wounded, on the Menin Road, Ypres, during the stiff fighting around Zonnebeke
• Our troops occupy Houthoulst Forest, the combined British and Belgian attack having ousted the enemy
• After the bitter struggle for the stricken village of Gheluvelt, lost and retaken several times
• The Golden sun goes down in peace o'er the desolate waste of "No man's Land." on the Somme
• Maintaining our supremacy in the air a battle squadron in
• Capture of a Hun blockhouse in the Hindenburg Line at Croiselles, wrecked by our artillery preparation
• Knocked out! A nest of Hun machine-guns which held up our advance at Monchy, Battle of Arras
• R.A.M.C. at Monchy dressing station attending to wounded coming down from the line
• Artillery observation officer in forward post regulates our barrage during the advance on Woncourt
• Waiting in trenches near Arras for our creeping barrage to lift before pushing on
• Formidable Hun "pill-box" at Bullecourt-scene of sanguinary fighting during the Battle of Arras
• R.E.'s mine and counter-mine Messines Ridge, which dominated Ypres, blown up and stormed, June 7th,'17
• Holding the line near Dickebush before our final assault on Messines Ridge, June 7th, 1917
• Zero hour! Prompt to the second, our men go over the top in a grand assault on Wytschaete Wood
• Disaster on the Dunes the Huns blow up the last bridge and isolate our hard-pressed battalions
• Under great difficulties our troops carry supplies over destroyed bridges on the Yser Canal
• Unexpectedly our "cleaners up" come to grips with a party of Germans isolated in a captured village
• Through gas and smoke, our troops advance to the final assault of Passchendaele Ridge
• Tenderly carrying a "blighty" case to an aid post through the maze of trenches at Passchendaele
• Guarding sacred Ypres, where British heroism shone resplendent through the war's darkest hours
• 14th Century Ramparts and Lilli Gate through which British troops entered during the defence of Ypres

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