On The Home Front 1940

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Full title reads: "On The Home Front"

London.

VS. of barbed wire being placed around Government buildings in London and of army guards outside the buildings.

MSs. and Cus. of aliens arriving at and settling in at an internment camp in England for foreign nationals. One of...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
20805
Sort Number:
40/042
Time in/Out:
01:19:17:00 / 01:22:05:00
Canister:
40/42
Film ID:
1045.15
Issue Date:
23/05/1940

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