Free Belgium Navy Gets A New Recruit 1942

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Titles read: "FREE BELGIUM NAVY GETS A NEW RECRUIT".

A port somewhere in Britain.

Several shots of a new Corvette ship being handed over to a crew of the Free Belgian Navy by the Belgian Minister Monsieur Gutt. Mr Gutt is piped aboard and watches the British Navy white Ensign being...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
43773
Sort Number:
42/030
Time in/Out:
01:02:52:00 / 01:03:24:00
Canister:
42/30
Film ID:
1324.04
Issue Date:
13/04/1942

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