PLUMER DECORATING WOMEN OF FANY AND VAD [Main Title]

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  • Title: PLUMER DECORATING WOMEN OF FANY AND VAD [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 260
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  • Summary: General Sir Herbert Plumer, commanding Second Army, presents medals for bravery to FANY and VAD officers at Blendecques, Western Front, 3 July 1917.
  • Description: The ceremony takes place in a field, with men of Plumer's staff watching as he pins medals for bravery onto women officers of the Queen Alexandra's First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and the Voluntary Aid Detachment, each in turn. One of the girls, and one of the staff officers, start giggling as the ceremony progresses. A final posed line of the FANY and VAD officers with their medals.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 260
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1917
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company) McDowell, J B (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Plumer, Herbert Charles Onslow (person) British Army, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (regiment/service) Voluntary Aid Detachment (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: ceremonies, British - event-related: investiture (object name) 01/3(4-15).8 (event) Blendecques, Pas-de-Calais, France (geography) (concept) camera (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 150 ft; Running time: 2 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 260

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