30s To 50s Join Up 1940

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Full title reads: "30s to 50s Join Up".

VS good shots of recruits for the Pioneer Corps (The Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps) arriving at camp in civvies, being issued with uniforms, training with machine guns, drilling with rifles on a beach, they parade past a senior officer.

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
20731
Sort Number:
40/033
Time in/Out:
01:56:50:00 / 01:57:48:00
Canister:
40/33
Film ID:
1041.54
Issue Date:
22/04/1940

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