Title:ROYAL ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS IN FRANCE (corrected ledger title) [Main Title]
Film Number:COI 5
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Summary: Unedited material apparently showing the embarkation for and arrival in France of British army and RAF personnel, probably at the start of World War II.
Description: Motorcycles and other vehicles round corner of road/track; a vehicle parking area, with several parked lorries loaded with boxes and covered by netting; stacked rifles, soldiers' kit and helmets (a soldier knocks over a rifle-stack); kitbags, on train platform; column of soldiers on quayside by large ship; a second column (Royal Army Ordnance Corps ?); loading motorcycles in sling; 4 officers pose; man with RAOC shoulder badge reading letter; lorries and motorcycles move off; filling up petrol tanks of motorcycles from hand-cranked pump; lorry convoy stationary on road; motorcycles waiting (by warehouses?); squad of soldiers, 2 with bicycles, follow a Sergeant and an officer with a map up a hill; Bren gun carriers in small town street; army column passes 'crocodile' of schoolchildren led by nuns; lorries and motorcycles on cobbled road; ambulance arrives by halted train; close-up of spade digging shallow trench.
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Colour:B&W
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Object_Number:COI 5
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1940
Production Country: GB
Production Details:
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Army Service Corps (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: equipment, British military - personal: kit (object name)
operations, British military - movement (object name)
operations, British military - routine (object name)
supplies, British - movement [RA] - misc (object name)
transport, British military - 2/3 wheel: motorcycle (object name)
France (geography)
