Women’s Land Army Camp Going To Farms By Lorry (1914-1918)

Women’s Land Army Camp going to farms by lorry. Location of events unknown. Opens with shot of row of tents; conical shaped like a wigwam or teepee (tepee). A woman is coming out of one with a bugle as in military; she blasts out reveille and lots of women emerge from the tents; walking in different directions. CU 5 women in front of tent; getting ready; one polishing boot; one wrapping strip round & round her leg. Pan across camp; women shaking out beds; folding blankets; etc. Women cooking breakfast in pans on top of outdoor brick oven; next to a cabin; a little spaniel dog runs by in FG. More women at work; some stirring steaming huge pots; others carrying pitchers. Women baker by half-moon shaped oven; taking out a pan hooked onto a long pole A bunch of women in the back of a truck; moving away on a road through trees; some waving. Truck stopped on road; some women jump off; wave goodbye to others who remain. Women working in field, gathering flax into bundles while a ’country manor’ man smo
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