Guardsmen Build While Builders March 1945

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Full title reads: "GUARDSMEN BUILD WHILE BUILDERS MARCH".

Windsor, Berkshire & London.

Various shots of the guardsmen building Nissen home. Close up shots of bricks being laid. Soldiers tarring top of house. Soldiers plastering the interior of a Nissen home.

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
40316
Sort Number:
45/090
Time in/Out:
01:13:35:00 / 01:15:26:00
Canister:
45/90
Film ID:
1167.06
Issue Date:
08/11/1945

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