Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: At a Remount Depot and Veterinary Hospital, mules are treated and trained ready for service on the Burma front.
Description: A line of mules; each is held by an Indian muleteer. A British officer, presumably of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps or Royal Indian Army Service Corps (RIASC), inspects a mule. He reaches into its mouth. Two men at a portable field forge for heating branding irons. A farrier takes an iron from the forge and uses it to brand a mule's hoof with a regimental number. Mules are harnessed; one animal refuses the harness before calming down. Mules being exercised on a circular track. A mule has a metal clamp put into its mouth to enable a vet to extract a tooth. More footage of the mules being exercised. A vet takes a blood spot from a mule's ear in order to test for surra, a potentially fatal disease caused by a blood-borne protozoa. The blood spot is examined under a microscope and the mule innoculated as a precaution. A mule is shoed by a blacksmith. More footage of the mules being exercised, including a low shot of mules running towards (and over) the camera. The mules are harried along by two Sikhs on horseback.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor)
SEAC Film Unit (Production company)
Brown, T V (Production individual)
Higgins, K G (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Army Veterinary Corps (regiment/service)
Indian Army, Royal Indian Army Service Corps (regiment/service)
Keywords: Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
