Title:FAREWELL CEREMONIAL PARADE OF 35TH LONDON (CIVIL SERVICE) BATTALION HOME GUARD 30TH OCTOBER 1944. SALUTE TAKEN BY SIR JOHN ANDERSON [Main Title]
Film Number:MGH 3414
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Summary: Farewell parade of the 35th London (Civil Service) Battalion, Home Guard, in London, October 1944.
Description: The 35th County of London (Civil Service) Battalion of the Home Guard parade through the streets of Westminster, passing a branch of Barclays Bank and a growing crowd of onlookers. A number of red double decker London buses pass the camera. A woman in a long fur coat walks past. Home Guard marching band. Belisha Beacon crossing. Marching onto Horse Guards Parade. Panning shot of assembled battalion. Family and friends seated behind podium. Minister of Aircraft Production, Sir Richard Stafford-Cripps passes the camera. The battalion is inspected by Sir John Anderson, then Chancellor of the Exchequer. The battalion then marches past Sir John and back onto the streets of London (brief glimpse of Stafford-Cripps again). Views through coiled barbed wire fence of battalion marching through the streets. Westminster Abbey in the foreground.
