Army Helps GPO 1940

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Description

Full title reads: "Army Helps GPO".

MS Man in street telephone call-box banging the receiver because he cannot get a number.

VS of Signal Corps. Unit at work repairing damaged overhead and underground telephone lines of the G.P.O. (General Post Office)

Data

Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
21266
Sort Number:
40/095
Time in/Out:
01:45:43:00 / 01:46:27:00
Canister:
40/95
Film ID:
1061.39
Issue Date:
25/11/1940

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