Chief Constable William Burns Lindley - Review of Specials.
Location of events unknown - somewhere in England. (Leeds - see amendment below)
Review of the Special Constables (men not at war because of age; disability; etc.) Opens with title frame: 'Chief Constable William Burns Lindley giving orders.' Pan across many men (wearing various suits but the same Specials caps and white armbands) standing; holding salute; in a park. The drill then breaks up and the men head off in all directions.
Then GV specials marching through the park; behind a man on horseback; coming toward camera. Pan over to the men as they go past; to right. More of the Specials marching toward camera. More and more.
World War One. Home front.
Amendment August 2011: John Lindley wrote in to notify us that William Burns Lindley was Chief Constable of Leeds. He was born in Leeds on 1857 and he died in Leeds in 1919.
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