RAF Wedding 1914-1918

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Royal Air Force man marries girl from Women's Royal Air Force.

Ruislip, Greater London.

MS of the bride and groom Miss H Rayner and Lieutenant P H James coming through a tunnel formed by their fellow service-people who hold streamers overhead and throw rice. Civilian family and friends...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Cheri
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
75215
Sort Number:
ON 221 C
Time in/Out:
01:01:18:00 / 01:01:44:00
Canister:
ON 221 C
Film ID:
2344.02
Issue Date:
1914 - 1918

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  • Reducing this clip's current date range, if the bride in this piece is indeed a member of the WRAF then the earliest the wedding can have taken place is 1918, that being the year the WRAF was founded.

    jamied 17th Feb 2013

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