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Title:THE FIRST PRISONERS FROM NORMANDY ARRIVE IN ENGLAND (PART 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 30-2
Other titles:
Summary:
Description: German prisoners of war queue up to receive travelling rations before leaving a POW transit compound in Gosport. The cameraman studies one of the Wehrmacht prisoners (an infantry Oberfeldwebel wearing a 2nd Class Iron Cross ribbon) who studiously ignores his presence. British Army personnel and Military Police supervise the flow of prisoners from the compound to a nearby railway platform (not seen), searching each man before he leaves and keeping a count of the prisoners as they file along a barbed-wire 'corridor' to an awaiting train that will take them to Kempton Park (whose race-course is now used as a POW reception camp).
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Taylor, A A (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Military Police (regiment/service)
German Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: prisoners of war, German - movement (object name)
Second World War, British Home Front & Operation Overlord & 8/6/1944 (event)
GB, England & Gosport, Hants <POW transit compound> (geography)