Serving Their Country

Series

Series Name
Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.
256-1
Date Released
19 Jul 1916
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 5
Summary
[SUBTITLE]: "The horse which was wounded in the Battle of Loos, still doing his bit for the Country, helping the women working on an Essex Farm." Woman in field cleaning a scythe. Two shots of women scything in a field. Four women passing down rows of crops hoeing. Woman about to feed piglets. Woman leads horse to water trough. She rides the horse past the camera. Feeding the piglets.
Keywords
Agriculture; Animal husbandry; Animals
Length of story (in feet)
88

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name
British Film Institute (BFI)
Email
For BFI National Archive enquiries:
nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk
Web
http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web
Phone
020 7255 1444
Fax
020 7580 7503
Address
21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN
Notes
The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
Series held
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How to cite this record

'Serving Their Country', Topical Budget Issue No. 256-1, 19 Jul 1916. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/125718 (Accessed 26 Mar 2026)