Fun Fair Folk Help Red Cross 1940

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Full title reads: "Fun Fair Folk Help Red Cross".

MS of Mr Fred Grove MP handling a cheque for £800 to Sir Phillip Chetwode, President of the Red Cross Association, the money was collected by fun fair workers and is for the purchase of an ambulance for the Red Cross.

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
21271
Sort Number:
40/096
Time in/Out:
01:50:48:00 / 01:51:20:00
Canister:
40/96
Film ID:
1061.44
Issue Date:
28/11/1940

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