The Transvaal War has caused loneliness and sorrow in many a home, and in this Film a dramatic little incident connected with it is taken for illustration. A C.I.V. is tenderly parting with his aged mother in her little cottage, and, as a parting gift, she presses upon him a portrait of herself in a small gilt frame. Kissing it, he places it within his breast-pocket, and tears himself away to turn to duty for Queen and Country. The scene now changes to the open Veldt, with the tents of the British in the far distance. Wounded and alone, the soldier of our first scene staggers towards them to gain the help of his friends, but sinks exhausted on the ground. Lying there in a fainting condition, he dreams of his mother and home, and slowly the vision appears in the sky of the room in which he last saw her. He sees her reading his last letter, and then she sinks to her knees in an agony of apprehension for the safety of her boy, praying for his return. The vision fades and as if in answer to her prayer, a Red Cross nurse and army surgeon appear upon the scene. Reviving the wounded man with a draft from her bottle, as the doctor examines him, the sister quickly brings him round. The surgeon discovers the mother's picture in the man's pocket, and draws the nurse's attention to the fact that his life has been saved by his mother's portrait.

Source: Catalogue of Paul's Animatographs & Films.