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Title:CALLING BLIGHTY NO 99 (MANCHESTER AREA) [Main Title]
Film Number:MGH 3491
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Summary: Messages home from British serviceman serving in India to their loved ones in the Manchester area and the surrounding areas, specially recorded for morale purposes. Canteen scenes.
Description: List of personnel (identified by rank, name, service number and unit) who recorded brief messages home to their loved ones (relationship, name and address) who were later invited to a screening in Great Britain but who do not appear in the film.
1. Private K Hollowes, 1472241, Royal Army Medical Corps, sending a message to his friends Mr and Mrs Fitzgerald, Old Trafford, Manchester, Lancashire.
2. Sergeant M Cullen, 3519181, Army Catering Corps, sending a message to his wife Mrs M Cullen, Collyhurst, Manchester, Lancashire.
3. Lance Corporal B Haydn, 4697224, Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, sending a message to his wife and daughter Mrs B Haydn, Ashton-On-Mersey, Sale, near Manchester, Lancashire.
4. Private W Bradley, 4029031, The South Staffordshire Regiment, sending a message to his wife Mrs Bradley, Longsight, Manchester, Lancashire.
5. Sergeant H Hedley, 1738689, Royal Artillery 23 Field Regiment, sending a message to his wife Mrs A Hedley, Brownley Green, Wythenshawe, Manchester, Lancashire.
6. Sergeant S Hardbottle, 10577617, Indian Army Corps of Clerks?, sending a message to his wife Mrs Hilda Hardbottle, Mottram, Manchester, Lancashire.
7. Gunner J P Stephenson, 11005417, 21/8 Rajput Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment Indian Artillery, sending a message to his wife Mrs H Stephenson, Manchester, Lancashire.
8. Gunner S Marshall, 1823774, 21/8 Rajput Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment Indian Artillery, sending a message to his mother Mrs Marshall, Withington, Manchester, Lancashire.
9. Lance Corporal I Dooley, 2360638, 5th Air Formation Signals, sending a message to his wife Mrs L Dooley, Moston, Manchester, Lancashire.
10. Lance Corporal E Ormrod, 14206639, 5th Air Formation Signals, sending a message to his mother Mrs Ormrod, Failsworth, Manchester, Lancashire.
11. Private F Campbell, 3915353, 6 Battalion FSWB attached to No 2 Company Southern Signals, sending a message to his wife Mrs Campbell, Gorton, Manchester, Lancashire.
12. Sergeant A Booth, 3447547, 2nd Indian Heavy Anti-Aircraft Workshop Section, sending a message to his mother Mrs Booth, Radcliffe, near Manchester, Lancashire.
13. Sergeant H Butterworth, 3450829, Lancashire Fusiliers, sending a message to his mother Mrs Butterworth, Longsight, Manchester, Lancashire.
14. Sergeant G Stirling, 10549900, OOSDI, sending a message to his parents Mr and Mrs Stirling, Prestwich, Manchester, Lancashire and his girlfriend Miss J Warr, Crumpsall, Manchester, Lancashire.
15. Gunner E P Taylor, 1084150, 123 Field Regiment Royal Artillery, sending a message to his mother, Mrs R Taylor, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, Lancashire.
16. Gunner R Walmsley, 11258004, 123 Field Regiment Royal Artillery, sending a message to his wife Mrs Rose Walmsley, Moston, Manchester, Lancashire.
Production Details: Directorate of Welfare and Amenities ()
Services Film Centre, India ()
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HD Media:Yes
Notes: Information taken from original listing acquired with the film. listing used for sending invitations to the named relatives inviting them to the screening of the film in the local area.
Filmed messages may not appear in the order listed above.
Pte Ken Hollows appears in this issue. Identified by Mr Hollows in a letter to IWM 1994 (JH477)
See "'Keep smiling, keep those chins up and God bless': filmed messages home from service personnel in the Far East during the Second World War" by Paul Sargent, Imperial War Museum Review, No.7, 1992.
