War Office official Topical Budget compilation of women working throughout World War One, 1917-1918.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Imperial War Museums (Great Britain), owner.

Topical Film Co., production company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture.

Pageants.

Parades.

Politicians.

Railroad travel.

Recruiting and enlistment.

War.

Women politicians.

Women.

Women--Suffrage.

Pankhurst, Emmeline, 1858-1928.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (12 minutes)) : silent, black and white.

Place of Publication:

[Great Britain] : Topical Film Company, 1917.

Summary:

I. "THE WAR WOMEN OF ENGLAND. War Office Official Topical Budget 348-1. Land Workers' great call up in London." II. "NOTTS WOMEN'S GREAT RALLY. War Office Official Topical Budget 346-2. Duke of Portland as recruiting officer." III. "COME , GIRLS, SIGN ON." War Office Official Topical Budget 350-1. Land Women's fair recruiting sergeant addressing London business girls." IV. "MOBILIZING OUR WOMEN. War Office Official Topical Budget 326-2. Recruits for the WAACs are rolling up in thousands. These splendid girls arrive in mufti and after a short period of training proceed over seas with the smartness and precision of veterans." V. "FOR MEN MUST FIGHT AND WOMEN MUST WORK. War Office Topical Budget 326-2. The soldiers of the Womens Army tackle any work from acting as Motor Mechanics down to "Barrack Services" and peeling the humble but necessary potatoe." VI. "LORD MAYORS WAR PAGEANT. War Office Topical Budget 324-2. London enjoyed a great military spectacle in this years Lord Mayors Show. Thousands of troops, Women Volunteers, and "All Clear" scouts taking part." VII. "WOMEN AS GUARD OF HONOUR. War Office Topical Budget 324-2. General Sir Francis Lloyd at the opening of the Recruiting Hut in Trafalgar Square for the Women's Auxilliary Army Corps popularly known in France as the "Waxs"." VIII. "WILL THERE BE WOMEN MPs? War Office Topical Budget 324-2. Mrs Pankhurst, "General" Drummond Miss Christabel Pankhurst, and Miss Kenny met with wild enthusiasm at the meeting held at Queens Hall to found a Womens Parliamentary Party." IX. "WOMENS' ECONOMY CAMPAIGN. War Office Topical Budget 332-2. Mrs. C.S. Peel: Director, Womens' Section, Ministry of Food, leaving Grosvenor House after an arduous day's work." X. "THE LADY PLOUGHMAN. War Office Topical Budget 336-2. Stirring march through Winchester of Hampshire's Women Workers on the Land." XI. "WHERE OUR HEROES SLEEP. War Office Topical Budget 346-2. WAACs tending Britons' graves in France."

Notes:

Archive title.

Issue number: 348-1.

Series: War Office Official Topical Budget.

With intertitles.