3-023-168 - British Pathe Ltd/Heritage Images

Scene from the Short Silent Feature Film 'Poppies of Flanders'. A Male Actor Portraying a Soldier Lies Dead in the Trenches, 1920s. '...the final denouement on the battle field. There our hero dies like a, well, like a hero...Moral? If drink makes you a rotter, get killed in battle and then blame it all on the enemy'. From "Time To Remember - Came the Dawn", 1925 (Reel 2); peek at the British Film Industry of the 1920s - clips from great silent films and newsreels.