KOREAN WAR PRISONERS AND VETERANS RETURN TO BRITAIN - NEWSREEL ITEMS [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: KOREAN WAR PRISONERS AND VETERANS RETURN TO BRITAIN - NEWSREEL ITEMS [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: MGH 4554
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  • Summary: Compilation of British newsreel items showing reception in England of 1st Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment (and other) prisoners of war at end of the Korean War.
  • Description: "POWs Home" Twenty-two British servicemen, released under second Wounded Exchange Agreement, arrive at RAF Lyneham by Hastings. Two give live interviews. "Welcome to Britannia Camp" General Edelmann, Commander of US Armed Forces in Europe, presents American Presidential Citation, affixing streamer to regimental colour of Gloucestershire Regiment. "Salute the Gloucesters" 16mm fragment of story held complete on NPT 42051. "Liverpool" (Pathe News) Soldiers of Royal Ulster Rifles, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers and the Gloucestershire Regiment receive civic welcome upon their arrival in Liverpool. "Gloucesters home for Xmas" (Pathe News) Lieutenant-Colonel Digby Grist returns to England with fifteen other survivors, including Captain Michael Harvey, from the Battle of the Imjin River, and tells camera of "good news of prisoners". (No title) Former Korean War prisoners Rifleman James Connor of Royal Ulster Rifles, from Belfast, Gunner Edward Busby of Royal Artillery, from Watford, and Private John Wiseman of the Gloucestershire Regiment (also from Watford, and captured at Imjin in 1951), return to England and change into new clothes. "Home Again!" (Movietone News) Two from five hundred former POWs from Korea disembarking from Asturias at Southampton tell camera (live) of ill treatment by Chinese and limited success of brain-washing by Communists. "Panmunjon - Reds free Col Carne" Weakened Lieutenant-Colonel gets down from truck after release from Korean captivity. "More ex-POWs Home" (Movietone News) After disembarking at Southampton, Captain Farrar Hockley and Lieutenant-Colonel Carne respectively describe Communist methods of indoctrination and their activity while POWs in Korea, "not much reading - Communist literature not very attractive". (No title) Lieutenant-Colonel Carne VC, DSO poses with wife and son. "Gloucester honours Colonel Carne" (The AKC Globe) After receiving honorary Freedom of City, and presenting small stone cross to Cathedral, Carne delivers speech of thanks at City Hall, 21 November 1953. "Liverpool" (Pathe News) As previously, plus credit. "Salute the Gloucesters" (Pathe News) 16mm version of story on NPT 42051. "Gloucesters home for Xmas" (Pathe News) As previously, plus credit.
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  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: MGH 4554
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: NON-IWM
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  • Production Date: 1953
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Pathe News (Production company) British Movietone News (Production company) Army Kinema Corporation (Production company) Globe (Production company)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 711 ft; Running time: 18 mins
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