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Short Summary
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Description
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Data
- Film ID:
- 2078.18
- Media URN:
- 75589
- Group:
- Unissued unused
- Archive:
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 1940 - 1949
- Sound:
- Silent
- HD Format:
- Available on request
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Duration:
- 00:01:55:00
- Time in/Out:
- 01:51:03:00 / 01:52:58:00
- Canister:
- UN 1423 I
Toby Neal says
The film is of British Wrens in Sydney in March 1945. I know this because my mother Miss Elizabeth Caiger was one of them who arrived at Sydney at the end of January 1945 and her quarters were in Ramsgate Avenue, the north side of Bondi Beach. The beach in the film is Bondi Beach. In a letter home dated March 22, 1945, my mother wrote: "We had the photographers in last week at breakfast time taking movie photos of us for Pathé-Gazette or so they said to go home. I’m in part of it looking very breakfastish I’m afraid but let me know if you see it." I can't recognise my mother being in the film in this preview version but the Wren at .29 can be identified (from our family albums of that period) as a friend called Doris Nairn. My mother married at St John's Church, Ashfield, Sydney, in October 1945.
Toby Neal