Set against the backdrop of the shell crisis of 1915 at home and the Battle of Loos on the Western Front, two soldiers, one the manager of Grimlaw’s munitions factory are tested in their rivalry for Diana, a red cross nurse (Madeleine Carroll in her first film role).
An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's home.
A girl refuses the attentions of a young playboy with whom her sister is in love.
An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.