"Over There" - News Flashes From France 1940

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Full title reads: "'Over There' - News Flashes From France".

France.

VS of men of the Royal Irish Rifles marching through French village led by pipe band and entering the church in the village for Mass.

GV Interior of church with service in progress.

LS of the troops...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
20605
Sort Number:
40/014
Time in/Out:
01:34:45:00 / 01:35:25:00
Canister:
40/14
Film ID:
1035.31
Issue Date:
15/02/1940

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