Soldiers Build Portable Hospitals (1917)

Soldiers build portable hospitals. Location of events unknown. World War One; construction. Soldiers; who are convalescent themselves; build portable hospitals for the front. Shot of soldiers unloading wood;etc. from truck. Then shot of soldiers attaching curved roof as supervisor watches. CU soldier (with eye patch) hammering. GV pan half-cylinder shaped building under construction; roof half-built; one guy on roof and others coming up ladder through inside. Pan to men talking in front; with completed building in BG; with covering of corrugated tin. Carpentry. architecture. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (19