This Day - March 18 No 8 1920-1949

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Title reads: "This Day - March 18th". Short Documentary film about events around that date throughout the century.

Mar 1920 - Statue unveiled to Nurse Edith Cavel in London. Shots of fighting in WWI. Shots of memorial service for Nurse Cavel.
Mar 1936 - Funeral parade for Admiral Earl Beatty....

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
82254
Sort Number:
DOCS
Time in/Out:
01:28:06:00 / 01:41:45:00
Canister:
DOCS
Film ID:
2809.03
Issue Date:
1920 - 1949

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