Summary: Stockshot material of Royal Engineers in the First World War.
Description: Not all of the material is of Royal Engineers. The opening shows Kitchener inspecting new recruits in London, and later on the Western Front. Royal Engineers dig, plant and explode a large mine under the German positions on the Western Front. Various examples of sappers repairing trenches and laying light railways. Sappers in Palestine laying telegraph wires and railway lines, including a view from a moving train of the finished railway. Pontoon bridges in Mesopotamia. Early Mark I tanks in training. The Victory Parade through the streets of London in 1919, including the Royal Engineers contingent. Finally, inland water transport barges on the Western Front and in Egypt.
