PRINCESS ELIZABETH AT CRANWELL

Princess Elizabeth At Cranwell 1951

Star Item

Description

Unissued / unused material.

Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) at Cranwell, Lincolnshire.

Title reads: "Astra Gazette ... Graduation Parade at RAF College Cranwell".

Seats lined out. RAF cadet knocking in board "B2 Enclosure". MS cadet placing chairs in position. MS cadet vacuum-cleaning red carpet on dais (2 shots). Cadets putting railings on dais (2 shots). Cadets in uniform being inspected before passing out parade.

Exterior shots college, guests arriving and going through gates. They take their seats outside for parade. Seats being filled. Cadet with family. CU RAF senior officers: Air Vice Marshall G. E. Nicholetts (Senior Air Staff Officer Coastal Command), AVM G. R. C. Spencer AOC No. 19 Group, Coastal Commander Sir Leslie Hollinghurst (Air Member for Personnel) with Lady Embry, pan to Sir Basil Embry of Fighter Command.

Top shot cadets marching on parade ground. Crowd watching. Princess Elizabeth arrives and walks towards camera with Air Commodore Sinclair, commander-in-chief Cranwell. Cranwell tower with royal flag breaking. Present arms by cadets. Princess Elizabeth inspects officer cadets (4 shots). CU M. D. Mcfadyen, Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Policy). Princess Elizabeth inspecting cadets (2 shots). Crowd watching, including American and foreign types. Various shots cadets marching past Princess.

Presentation of special awards to Flight Cadet Under-Officer Henry Alan Merriman (Sword of Honour and King's Medal) of Buntinford. CU Air Marshall A. Stevens, commander-in-chief Coastal Command watching. Medal of Honour being presented to Flight Cadet Under-Officer B. A. Spry of Paignton Cadets. Princess Elizabeth makes speech to cadets (natural sound). Colour marched into college (5 shots).

Princess Elizabeth leaves college by car for airfield. Crowd. Princess Elizabeth inspects line of aircraft and airmen (Sinclair with her). Princess Elizabeth looks at modern aircraft. LS Cranwell College tower. MS Sir Hugh Walmsley, Group Captain Kyle and Sir John Slessor. CU Air Commandant N. M. Salmon, Director of WRAF (Women's Royal Air Force). Group looking up. Three aircraft flying. Princess Elizabeth and cadets looking up. Three planes loop the loop. MS Princess Elizabeth chatting with cadets.

Item is Astra Special, issue 133. Shots also used in Pathe Gazette issue 51/63.

less

Data

Cataloguer:: Amelia
Stock:: Black & White
Sound:: Sound
Media URN:: 68984
Sort Number:: UN 2382 D

Time in/Out:: 01:35:29:00 / 01:44:29:00
Canister:: UN 2382 D
Film ID:: 2567.11
Issue Date:

Appears in...

Collections: Newsreels
Categories: War & Revolution Historical Figures & Celebrities
WorkSpaces: The Queen's UK visits PRINCESS ELIZABETH AT CRANWELL 1951

Stills

Comments (0)

We always welcome comments and more information about our films.

All posts are reactively checked. Libellous and abusive comments are forbidden.

Add your comment

Bloodiest Battles Caught On Film

More Galleries

WW2 accounted for over 60m deaths and innumerable lives shattered. Pathé cameras took to land, sea and air to record the bloodshed. Here are the 10 bloodiest battles that were caught on film.

Winston Churchill’s Finest Quotes

More Galleries

The great politician and orator Winston Churchill left behind a sea of humourous quips and discerning quotes. We remember some of his finest epigrams and witty ripostes.

10 Tragedies Caught on Film

More Galleries

British Pathe captured many extraordinary events on film over its 80 year history but sometimes the cameras were switched on when tragedy struck.

Related Videos

Hide

: Coastal Defence Exercises In South Africa; Coastal defence preparations in South Africa.

: "The Pilot Of One Is Safe"; Airmen in distress at sea is thrown a dinghy and rescued by the Air-Sea Rescue Service.

: Coastal Command Strikes At German Convoy; Bombers and fighters of coastal command attack convoy of German ships in North Sea.

: Flying Battleships Rout Nazis; A Sunderland flying boat out on patrol over the Atlantic.

: Boom Defences; Ships lay booms across the mouths of harbours to prevent enemy ships getting through.

: Coastal Defences; God item about the great levels of morale in the British Coastal Defence forces.

: Harbour Fortifications; Smashed up coastal defences at unknown coastal town.

: Rock Climbing School In Trieste; Rock climbers on the coastal cliffs of Trieste, Italy

&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;script type="mce-text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://adserver.adtech.de/addyn/3.0/1287/3694797/0/170/ADTECH;loc=700;key=oly12; target=_blank;grp=[group]" data-mce-src="http://adserver.adtech.de/addyn/3.0/1287/3694797/0/170/ADTECH;loc=700;key=oly12;target=_blank;grp=[group]"&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/script&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;noscript&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://adserver.adtech.de/adlink/3.0/1287/3694797/0/170/ADTECH;loc=300;key=oly12;grp=[group]" target="_blank"&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;img src="http://adserver.adtech.de/adserv/3.0/1287/3694797/0/170/ADTECH;loc=300;key=oly12;grp=[group]" border="0" width="300" height="250"&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/noscript&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;

Death Row in Wartime: 8 Images

More Galleries

The death penalty has been carried out in almost all societies and although these images from WWI and WWII are unsettling, they still provide a raw account of events from a certain time.

Buchenwald Concentration Camp

More Galleries

The images taken from inside Buchenwald Concentration Camp after its Liberation show us what it was like; it tells us what happened and forces us to remember.

WW1: 10 Telling Images

More Galleries

10 telling images selected from British Pathé's extensive WWI footage. 'The war to end all wars' was a war without parallel: over 70 million military personnel were involved and over 17 million people died.

Prince Philip's Classic Quotes

More Galleries

The Duke of Edinburgh has many talents, but it is his unique way with words that often receives the most attention.

Before They Were Famous

More Galleries

British Pathé filmed the 20th Century's biggest names, some of them before they even became famous. Click through and guess who these soon-to-be celebrities were when first captured by our cameras.

10 Amazing Transport Inventions

More Galleries

Private UFOs, flying bicycles, motorised wheels - Pathe's archive is awash with fabulous films of canny and creative transport inventions.Take a look at some of the more unusual but ingenious ideas that people have had to beat the traffic.