the WORK OF THE ARMY VETERINARY CORPS : and how it is helped by the RSPCA [Main]


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  • Other title(s): OFFICIAL PICTURES OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE - FIFTH SERIES [series]
  • Year: 1916
  • Runtime: 9 mins
  • Description: An unfinished stable at the hospital, "will you help the RSPCA to complete it ?". A group of three horses. A wounded horse being attended to at a mobile veterinary section near the front. Wounded horses are entrained, then detrained at the hospital and loaded into a horse-box. The hospital itself includes an operating theatre, with horses being operated on, treatment for shrapnel wounds, and a horse-dip. The horses are then fed and exercised. A remount officer inspects the cured horses and they are led out of the stables.
    The British Army Veterinary Hospital at Neufchâtel, near Dieppe, France, spring 1916.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Royal Army Veterinary Corps / RSPCA / animals, mammals: horse & [casualties] & [+] / buildings, British - military: hospital, veterinary / 01/3(4-15).5 / Neufchâtel, Seine-Maritime, France
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: British Topical Committee for War Films
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound