Women in the industrial workforce on the homefront in Britain during World War 1. Opening scene shows several British women in working garb painting a railroad car. Other women perform manual labor alongside railroad box cars in a rail yard near a factory, as two women pass them pushing a small flatbed rail car loaded with steel rail parts. Change of scene to outdoors, where women are felling trees. Two in foreground are using a grinding wheel to sharpen an axe, while behind them, two push on a tree while two others use a long two-handled saw near its base. They jump clear as the tree falls. Women wielding axes to cut trees, elswehere in the woods. Two women with a two-handled saw, making final cuts on a standing tree, and stepping out of the way as it falls. A woman painter on a scaffold supported by block and tackle rigging four stories high on the side of a city building.
King George V and other officials review uniformed boy cadets in formation at Academy in England. King talks to the smallest boy and comes away smiling. .
Commander-in-Chief, British Home Forces, Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, reviewing London volunteer soldiers, during World War 1. He is seen on horseback, with staff officers. The London Volunteer units march past with shouldered rifles. Closeup of The Viscount French, as he was known.
Conscripted British men receive personal notices as their names are read at public gathering. The drafted men assemble and march off for training and World War 1 service, accompanied by uniformed officials. Friends and bystanders, including a number of women, walk along beside and behind the new recruits on their way to war.
Equestrians riding in Sibbon Park,near Folkestone, East Kent, England,during World War 1. A group gathering along a path in the background. In the foreground, several horse riders in traditional foxhunting attire, proceed along a park path behind a large group of fox hounds. Following behind them is a youth on a pony, and behind him the rest of the riders, including: a mix of military officers in uniform, men in traditional attire and women riding habit. Scene shifts to dirt roadway near farm fields, where riders and hounds assemble.
British troops of the Honorable Artillery Company Regiment leave London by railway train, bound for France to reinforce those already there. The railroad train station platform is filled with new recruits and reinforcement troops as they march toward the train. Soldiers on platform wave to those in the train. (World War 1; WWI; WW1)