"SOLDIERS AS COAL PORTERS". Members of the Army Service Corps distributing coal to billeted soldiers"
Medium shot of two men holding open a coal sack as another man behind them shovels coal into it from a heap of coal in a yard. Behind them are more men hacking coal into smaller pieces. Group of men outside a wooden hut in a coal yard. One
man puts a bag of coal on his back and moves away. A sack of coal being
winched up so a man can turn and take it more easily onto his back. The man
with the sack walks along a plank which rests on the open side of a
horse-drawn lorry [horse not seen]. Men standing on the lorry to receive it. Winching operation repeated. Film ends abruptly.
Note: The Army Service Corps provided transport and supply services. Some of
the men in the film wear peaked military hats; others flat caps.