Desert Parade Commemorates Algiers Conquest 1950

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Full title reads: "Desert Parade Commemorates Algiers Conquest".

In Salah, Algeria. Foreign Legion outpost.

GV People gathered around memorial to Captain Pein. SV Back view Mr Naegelen, Governor General of Algeria saluting memorial. CU Memorial Tablet. SV Mr Naegelen holding standard...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
47345
Sort Number:
50/006
Time in/Out:
01:15:06:00 / 01:16:02:00
Canister:
50/6
Film ID:
1448.08
Issue Date:
19/01/1950

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