Heavy Machine Guns In Action 1941

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Title reads: "Heavy Machine Guns in Action".

Location of events unknown.

Machine Gun Battalion of North Country Regiment on mass exercise on moorland.

L/S of a convoy of lorries crossing a plain. Various shots of troops climbing from the lorries and unloading their machine...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
37794
Sort Number:
41/013
Time in/Out:
01:39:15:00 / 01:40:56:00
Canister:
41/13
Film ID:
1069.30
Issue Date:
13/02/1941

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