Lead-up to Ypres: Upside-down academy leader countdown. CU of map showing Armentières and Ypres. PAN along the Ypres wall bordering on a river, dissolve to still photo of historic Cloth Hall. Various shots of Ypres streets filled with rubble from the ruins of buildings, people walking through rubble, civilians gathering their belongings to evacuate. LS of Canadian officers on horseback, MS of soldiers in great coats marching close to camera. MS of Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, General Officer Commanding of the 2nd Army (of which the Canadian contingent is part), on horseback. LS of Canadian soldiers on parade grounds. CU of map of Ypres showing frontline. MS of Canadian soldiers marching to the front, filing into shallow, muddy trenches. CU of map showing Allied positions.