French Troops Preparing Meal At The Front (1914-1918)

Exact location unknown. Various shots show French soldiers preparing a meal at the front during the First World War. First we see soldiers marching through woods. They build a fire and use the flame to ignite another fire. A large, belligerent officer oversees the work. Shot of a line of black cans suspended over several small fires. Men sit and tend the ’stoves’. There is a lot of smoke coming off the fires, sometimes obscuring the soldiers! In the foreground a man is adding sticks to a fire. Cooking; World War One; food. Modified WPA record. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), Briti