Calling 'blighty' 1944

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Item title reads - Calling 'Blighty'!

Italy.

British soldiers in Italy are able to send messages home to their relatives through Pathe Gazette. Various shots as Staff Sergeant Alf Lindsay from Yorkshire, Scottish driver Alex Burt, and Signalman R. Weaver from London give their messages...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
44510
Sort Number:
44/012
Time in/Out:
01:40:51:00 / 01:42:22:00
Canister:
44/12
Film ID:
1350.21
Issue Date:
10/02/1944

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