Naval Heroes Home 1940

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Full title reads: "Naval Heroes Home".

England.

VS of the survivors, some of whom are injured, of the British destroyer 'Afridi' and possibly the 'Bittern' which were sunk by the Germans in the North Sea. They have written in chalk the names of their ships on the side of railway carriages....

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
20788
Sort Number:
40/039
Time in/Out:
01:54:20:00 / 01:54:49:00
Canister:
40/39
Film ID:
1043.54
Issue Date:
13/05/1940

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