Manchester Regiment Training (1914-1918)

Manchester Regiment Training. Soldiers carry stretchers across field. CU Soldiers finding a wounded man; starting to lift him. (If the quality weren’t so bad this would be a good shot.) Troops advancing across field; a spread out line leads. They walk toward camera; then drop on the ground. (A short cut here.) Behind them the rest of the men advance in 2 long lines; bare trees and fog in BG; dreamlike. Pan right; the lines extend farther across the flat ground; and up a hill; the men are moving diagonally across the hill. Pan left as the long lines of men drop to the ground and the few in front start out again. Jumps around a bit here. CU soldier lying on the ground - funny shot; because then a stretcher crew come running and go right past him! Lots of soldiers standing about; in vague versions of the lines. Then a shot of the landscape; hills; trees; with soldier sitting down; they jump up and run to the right. Troops and stretcher bearers run across field. L/S of soldiers with bayonets (?) and so