Women Ambulance Drivers Keep Fit 1939

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Note: Location of events unknown, but possibly London.

Full titles read: "WOMEN AMBULANCE DRIVERS KEEP FIT"

Various shots, group of women ambulance drivers wearing strange mixture of uniform and civilian clothes, marching into square, doing P.T. exercises and then marching out again....

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Data

Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
20346
Sort Number:
39/074
Time in/Out:
01:09:47:00 / 01:10:27:00
Canister:
39/74
Film ID:
1023.11
Issue Date:
21/09/1939

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