I wish I'd had time to linger and see the "behind the scenes" video on how they accomplished it all.
In the behind the scenes part, Jackson mentioned that when the colorizing folks got to the uniforms, he loaned them his private collection of WWI uniforms. When the sound folks wanted to do the cannons, he loaned them his private collection of WWI cannons...
They did the artillery sound effects by miking the NZ Army’s artillery practice ... both at the guns and at the point of impact.